"like a good baby to breakfast"
Houlihan, Clifton, Popa, Kapuściński, Porter, Tanikawa
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Joan Houlihan:
Lucille Clifton:
Vasko Popa (tr. from Serbian by Charles Simic):
Ryszard Kapuściński (tr. from Polish by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand):
Anne Porter:
Shuntarō Tanikawa (tr. from Japanese by William I. Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura):
Mark Beyer, “Amy and Jordan,” 1989:
Henry Threadgill, “Off the Rag,” rec. December 1988:
Now I gotta go write a rag poem;)
what a thoughtful selection to ponder! Ryszard Kapuściński poem seems timely in relation to american politics these days...