"mobile mouth that siphons in the air that nurtures"
Simon, Phillips, Kumin, Lux, Zagajewski
Maurya Simon:
Carl Phillips:
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Maxine Kumin:
Thomas Lux:
Adam Zagajewski (tr. from Polish by Clare Cavanagh):
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...haven't read Lux for a long time, but it seems to me he wasn't so overtly political. Overtly expressed politics, to clarify, can be a very good thing in poems, I think. I like this one...