"and the root comes"
Youssef, Cavafy, Gregg, Riding, O'Hara, Coleman
Saadi Youssef (trans. from Arabic by Khaled Mattawa):
C.P. Cavafy (trans. from Greek by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard):
Linda Gregg:
Laura Riding:
Poetry is a sleep-maker which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on today’s doorstep.
Frank O’Hara:
Wanda Coleman:
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