"the ashes of this false catastrophe"
Menashe, Dickinson, Zeqo, Davis, Kyger
Samuel Menashe:
Emily Dickinson:
But Susan is / a stranger yet - /The ones who/cite her most / Have never scaled/her Haunted House / Nor compromised/ her Ghost - // To pity those who / know her not / Is helped by the regret / That those who/know her know / her less / The nearer her /
they get - Emily
Moikom Zeqo (tr. from Albanian by Anastas Kapurani and Wayne Miller):
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Lydia Davis:
Joanne Kyger:
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