"Not me, nor you—"
Holub, van Gogh, Šalamun, Dickinson, Glück, Cornell
Miroslav Holub (trans. from Czech by George Theiner):
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, July 2, 1883:
Tomaž Šalamun (trans. from Slovenian by Tomaž Šalamun and Christopher Merrill):
Emily Dickinson:
The Road to/ Paradise is/plain /And holds scarce/one—/Not that it has/not room/
But we presume/A florid road/ Is more preferred—//The Guests of/Paradise are few—/
Not me, nor you—
Louise Glück:
Joseph Cornell:
Anything can be used—but of course one doesn’t know it at the time. How does one know what a certain object will tell another?
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