"Crazy with ruby ills"
Bishop, Dugan, Corso, Whitman, Dickinson, Merwin, Celan, Kunitz
Elizabeth Bishop:
Alan Dugan:
Gregory Corso:
Walt Whitman:
Emily Dickinson:
To her / derided Home / A Weed of / Summer came — / She did not / know her / station low / Nor Ignominy's / name — / Bestowed a / summer long / Upon a fameless / flower,
W.S. Merwin:
Paul Celan (trans. Pierre Joris):
Stanley Kunitz:
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