"Doorways to the air"
Holub, Eilbert, Hillman, McClure, Ko
Miroslav Holub (tr. from Czech by Ewald Osers):
Natalie Eilbert:
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Ko Un (tr. from Korean by Clare You and Richard Silberg):
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I love how these pieces tuck chemical lexicon into figurative wordplay while still retaining emotional weights and timbres. Especially, Holub, Eilbert, and Hillman, they're kind of anti-romantic, harping the slimy microscopic undersides of all the bases and super structures of social being. Great post, thank you Sean!
That Hillman poem.