"I, its friend, shielding it from harm"
Hirshfield, Ignatow, Hedge Coke, Holub, Ginsberg
Jane Hirshfield:
David Ignatow:
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Allison Hedge Coke:
Miroslav Holub (tr. from Czech by David Young and Dana Hábová):
Allen Ginsberg, “Ballad of the Skeletons,” rec. October 1995:
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