"Every tone I seek"
Pizarnik, Lax, Dickinson, Hughes, Celan
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Alejandra Pizarnik (tr. from Spanish by Yvette Siegert):
But silence is / infinity - / Himself have not / a Face -
Paul Celan (tr. from German by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh):
The Bad Plus, “Silence is the Question,” rec. 2002:
another great collection- esp the Celan! but all of it.
The Robert Lax is fun to play with -- to read in varying ways and consider how that changes meaning -- to wonder about intent.