"Creature and creature, we stared down centuries"
Różewicz, Hass, Tate, Rukeyser, Armantrout, Pilinszky
Tadeusz Różewicz (trans. from Polish by Victor Contoski):
Robert Hass:
James Tate:
Muriel Rukeyser:
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Rae Armantrout:
János Pilinszky (trans. from Hungarian by János Csokits and Ted Hughes):
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