"in inarticulate frenzy"
Bashō, Szymborska, Moore, Edson, Brooks
Matsuo Bashō (tr. from Japanese by Robert Hass):
Wisława Szymborska (tr. from Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh):
Marianne Moore:
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My Dad sold televisions in Chicago. Someone bartered a monkey for a television. My mother was not happy when he brought it home. I love the bold audacity if Gwendolyn Brook's poem!