"heirs of an unseen lineage"

Merwin, Cisneros, Dickinson, Vollmer, Zimmer

W.S. Merwin:

Antonio Cisneros (tr. from Spanish by William Rowe):

Emily Dickinson:

A Spider sewed / at Night / Without a Light / Opon an Arc of / White - // If Ruff it was / of Dame / Or Shroud of Gnome / Himself himself / inform - // Of Immortality / His strategy / Was physiognomy -

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Judith Vollmer:

Paul Zimmer:

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