"I want to be entered and picked clean"
Dickinson, Wright, Naydus, Anonymous, Carson, Phillips
Emily Dickinson:
Grasped by / God—
Charles Wright:
Leyb Naydus (tr. from Yiddish by Ruth Whitman):
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Anonymous (tr. from medieval Hebrew):
Anne Carson:
Washington Phillips, “Paul and Silas in Jail,” rec. December 2, 1927:
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That Charles Wright poem is like a nightmare!
Great selection, Sean!