"into our very blood, into glance and gesture, and are nameless"
Stevens, Mandelstam, Crane, Niedecker, H.D., Wright, Oppen, Rilke
Wallace Stevens:
Osip Mandelstam (trans. W.S. Merwin):
Hart Crane:
Lorine Niedecker:
H.D. [Hilda Doolittle]:
C.D. Wright:
George Oppen:
Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. Stephen Mitchell):
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