"Names swallowed by the cold"
Brautigan, Sze, Shapero, Kunitz, Tranströmer
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Arthur Sze:
Natalie Shapero:
Stanley Kunitz:
Tomas Tranströmer (tr. from Swedish by Robert Bly):
Just coming to terms with Brautigan, I have finally realised, being a Beat poet. Who knew. I was 17 when I met him (“literarily”) and now I’m almost 71. Ha!
From A. R. Ammons:
. . . one
mourns the dead but who
can mourn those the dead mourned