"speaking with people who are silent"
Ginsberg, Bachmann, Parra, Tonks, Różewicz, Dickinson
Allen Ginsberg:
Ingeborg Bachmann (trans. from German by Jerome Rothenberg):
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Nicanor Parra (trans. from Spanish by Miller Williams):
Rosemary Tonks, July 22, 1963:
Tadeusz Różewicz (trans. from Polish by Joanna Trzeciak):
Emily Dickinson:
Bees are Black,/with Gilt Surcingles— / Buccaneers of Buzz— /Ride abroad in/
ostentation /And subsist on/Fuzz— //Fuzz ordained—not/Fuzz contingent—/
Marrows of the Hill— /Jugs a Universe’s/Fracture /Could not jar or /spill— //rapture
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