"Keep your eye clear"
Šalamun, Valentine, Heaney, Kristný, Alexander, Jarrell
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Tomaž Šalamun (tr. from Slovenian by Brian Henry):
Jean Valentine:
Seamus Heaney:
Gerður Kristný (tr. from Icelandic by Victoria Cribb):
Randall Jarrell:
Reading Jean Valentine is like having her ghost whisper in your ear...