"Air waits for us"
Herrera, Stafford, Hunt, Mandelstam, O'Hara, H.D.
Juan Felipe Herrera:
Even though we mean well when we write, it’s an aggressive action. It’s making a statement or delivering a product or making an incision—making an incision into society and into nature—so I want to reflect on letting things speak on their own, without having to speak for them—it is a poet’s paradox.
William Stafford:
Erica Hunt:
Osip Mandelstam (trans. Clarence Brown and Robert Hughes):
Frank O’Hara:
H.D. [Hilda Doolittle]:
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