"so out from us there's no vocabulary"
Shiroyasu, Howe, Glück, Rich, Brown
Suzuki Shiroyasu (tr. from Japanese by Nosh Koriyama and Edward Lueders):
Susan Howe:
Louise Glück:
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Adrienne Rich:
Jericho Brown:
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oh, Glück. “I ask you, how much beauty / can a person bear? It is/ heavier than ugliness, even the burden / of emptiness is nothing beside it.”
thank you for the Words.