"that one you pass off as yourself"
Mersal, Plath, Szymborska, Hecht, Edson, Mueller, Menashe
Iman Mersal (tr. from Arabic by Robyn Creswell):
Sylvia Plath:
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Wisława Szymborską (tr. from Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak):
Anthony Hecht:
Russell Edson:
Lisel Mueller:
Samuel Menashe:
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That Edson poem… a psychoanalyst’s dream!!😅