"finer than cobweb and as elastic"
Stafford, Dickinson, Goldbarth, Levertov, Celan
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William Stafford:
Emily Dickinson:
To mend each/tattered Faith /There is a/needle fair/Though no ap -/pearance/indicate - 'Tis threaded in/the Air -//And though it/do not wear/As if it never/Tore/'Tis very com -/fortable indeed/And specious/as before -
Albert Goldbarth:
Denise Levertov:
Paul Celan (tr. from German by Pierre Joris):
Franz Kafka, excerpt from “The Cares of a Family Man,” (tr. from German by Edwin and Willa Muir):
David S. Ware, “THREADS,” rec. 2003:
I started to say the Kafka was my favorite, but I went back and read them all again, and now I couldn't possibly chose. Wonderful selection, Sean.
The Stafford, in particular, is so timely...