"at the window with not even your rage"
Kunitz, Ammons, Dickinson, Schulz, Davis, Ginzburg, Perillo
Stanley Kunitz:
The best a poet can hope for is to be remembered for a while, to pass from one generation into another, to have some young person in another age open to a page and say, “How beautiful!” or “How true! He must have been like me.”
A.R. Ammons:
Emily Dickinson
Myself compu- / ted were they / Pearls / What Legacy / could be / Oh Magnanimity — / My Visitor in / Paradise —
Bruno Schulz (trans. Walter Arndt and Victoria Nelson):
Lydia Davis:
Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Dick Davis):
Lucia Perillo:
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