"remain over me my monument"
Sutzkever, Clifton, Hughes, Dickinson, Tranströmer
Avrom Sutzkever (trans. from Yiddish by Richard J. Fein):
Lucille Clifton:
Langston Hughes:
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Emily Dickinson:
The Road was lit with/Moon and star—/ The Trees were bright/and still—/Descried I— in by—the/distant Light/A Horseman traveller on a Hill—/in To magic Perpendiculars/ Ascending, though terrene—/Unknown his giddy - • dazzling shimmering/ultimate—/But he indorsed/the scene—sheen—
Tomas Tranströmer (trans. from Swedish by May Swenson):
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