"fingering through your spaces"
Amichai, Herbert, Kollwitz, Kyger, Kafka, Roethke, Wright, Lorde
Yehuda Amichai (trans. Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell):
Zbigniew Herbert (trans. John and Bogdana Carpenter):
Käthe Kollwitz:
Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius—and I count myself among these—have to restore the lost connection once more.
Joanne Kyger:
Franz Kafka, 1913:
Theodore Roethke:
C.D. Wright:
Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
Audre Lorde:
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