"it's not the color blue, it's the color cold"
Allen, Brodsky, Ai, Moerman, Zagajewski
Samuel Allen:
Joseph Brodsky:
Ai:
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Ernst Moerman (tr. from French by Samuel Beckett):
Adam Zagajewski (tr. from Polish by Clare Cavanagh):
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So good, all. Especially Brodsky' s tribute to Clifford Brown who died so young, so clean living. But then Chet's death is no less sad and he was older and not so clean living. Ai's beautiful poem made me think of Lynda Hull's Lost Fugue for Chet which I also first read here on the Sharpener. Thanks Sean