"talking in mindless ease"
Parra, Gudding, Dickinson, Edson, Dugan
Nicanor Parra (tr. from Spanish by Miller Williams):
Gabriel Gudding:
Emily Dickinson:
It's little Ether Hood / Doth sit upon it's Head— / The millinery supple / Of the sagacious God— // [And then doth] Till when it slip away / A nothing at a time—
And Dandelion's Drama / Expires in a stem.
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Dear Mr. Edson,
Thank you so much for The Large Thing! It is , now, one of my favorites of yours. I think it would make a wonderful illustrated poem if someone like Liana Finck were allowed to draw the pictures. I apologize if even the suggestion of illustrating your poem offends any premise or position in poetry that I haven't yet read about. If so, I blame Sean Singer.
Sincerely,
J. B., a fan (and I do realize that you have passed on, so at least I am not completely uneducated),