"ate a honey and grew waxen"
Mann, Welch, Kunitz, Niedecker, Valentine
Thomas Mann:
The grotesque is that which is excessively true and excessively real, not that which is arbitrary, false, irreal, and absurd.
Lew Welch:
Tomaž Šalamun (tr. from Slovenian by Tomaž Šalamun and Elliot Anderson):
Stanley Kunitz:
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Lorine Niedecker:
The monster died / of his last breath, / ate a honey and / grew waxen.
Jean Valentine:
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