"one of the wild-blooming crowns"
Sodo, Auden, Celan, Shin, Cohen
Yamaguchi Sodo (tr. from Japanese by R.H. Blyth):
W.H. Auden:
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Paul Celan (tr. from German by Pierre Joris):
Sun Yung Shin [신 선 영]:
Andrea Cohen:
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The Sodo, Auden, and Cohen poems are masterclasses in compression, line, imagery, and, well, truth-telling. Brilliant! Thank you!