"Ninety-seven percent of my world is wizardry, Three percent is organ, bone"
Brock-Broido, Cavafy, Brautigan, Drummond, Bishop, Riding
Lucie Brock-Broido:
C.P. Cavafy (trans. from Greek by Edmund Keely and Philip Sherrard):
Richard Brautigan:
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Carlos Drummond de Andrade (trans. from Portuguese by Elizabeth Bishop):
Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell, Oct. 1960:
Laura Riding:
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