"in this small corner"
Merwin, Roethke, Bishop, Koch, Herbert, Duncan, Cavafy
W.S. Merwin:
Theodore Roethke:
Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell, October 1960:
Kenneth Koch:
Zbigniew Herbert (trans. from Polish by John and Bogdana Carpenter):
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Robert Duncan to Denise Levertov, February 1963:
C.P. Cavafy (trans. from Greek by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard):
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Merwin gets at what I have been feeling as I begin to read contemporary work: I often miss the connection between the words on the page and any "conceivable experience." Where is the tipping point?