"Easy and often as each breath"
Frost, Plath, Wright, García Lorca, Schuyler, Dickinson, Rukeyser
Robert Frost:
Sylvia Plath:
Jay Wright:
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Federico García Lorca (trans. from Spanish by Jerome Rothenberg):
James Schuyler:
Emily Dickinson:
A wild Blue sky/abreast of Winds/ That threatened it—/did run/And crouched [sat+]/
behind his Yellow/Door/Was the defiant/sun—/Some conflict with/those upper friends/ So genial in the/main/[this] That we deplore/peculiarly/this Their arrogant/Campaign—
Muriel Rukeyser:
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