"glass-clear to no bottom"
Follain, Bourgeois, Paley, Celan, Flaubert, Tranströmer
Jean Follain (trans. W.S. Merwin):
Louise Bourgeois:
Grace Paley:
Paul Celan (trans. Rosmarie Waldrop):
Gustave Flaubert to Ivan Turgenev, 1875:
Tomas Tranströmer (trans. May Swenson):
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