"full of nails and ghosts"
Laser, Borbély, Rymbu, Brigham, Merwin
Jessica Laser:
Szilard Borbély (tr. from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet):
Galina Rymbu (tr. from Russian by Eugene Ostashevsky):
Poetry for me is a way of asking questions about the world—which makes it like philosophy, like critical thinking—but its is also a way of thinking that cannot be approached by pure critical intellection. Poetry always possess a certain excess, a certain gift of polysemy, the gift of the reverse side of language.
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Besmilr Brigham:
Korean figure (tr. by W.S. Merwin):
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