"in the glass cabinet"
Pilinszky, Niedecker, Zagajewski, van Gogh, Celan
János Pilinszky (trans. János Csokits and Ted Hughes):
Lorine Niedecker:
Adam Zagajewski (trans. from Polish by Clare Cavanagh, Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams):
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Vincent van Gogh, March 1884:
Under the twilight and brown; the peasant twice bronzed; His forehead bathed in the pale sky; Returns - his work done.
Paul Celan (trans. from German by Pierre Joris):
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