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Donne, Dickinson, Clifton, Ní Dhomhnaill, Gilbert, Kimbrough
John Donne:
Emily Dickinson:
How good his Lava Bed, / To this laborious Boy - / Who must be up to call / the World / And [curl] dress the sleepy Day -
Lucille Clifton:
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Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (tr. from Irish by Seamus Heaney):
Jack Gilbert:
Junior Kimbrough, “Feel So Good #1,” rec. 1966:
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John Donne to Emily Dickinson...yet it makes sense, even though I am not certain what a lava bed means in her poem. It must not be in relation to volcanoes or is it?