"like mist risen"
Blees, Tranströmer, Bird, Hamilton, Dickinson
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Gerda Blees (tr. from Dutch by Gerda Blees):
Tomas Tranströmer (tr. from Swedish by Robert Bly):
Caroline Bird:
Saskia Hamilton:
Emily Dickinson:
If my Bark sink / ‘Tis to another / Sea - / Mortality’s Ground Floor / Is Immortality -
Blind Willie Johnson, “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground,” rec. December 3, 1927:
Glenn Gould, “Hughe Ashton’s Grownde,” from A Consort Of Musicke By William Byrde And Orlando Gibbons, rec. June 14 & 15, 1967: