"the black frost of outsiderness"
Gunn, Trakl, Dugan, Mikajo, Sheck, Milosz, Mishol, Pessoa
Thom Gunn:
Georg Trakl (trans. Will Stone):
Alan Dugan:
Yagi Mikajo (trans. Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi):
Laurie Sheck:
Czeslaw Milosz:
When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
Agi Mishol (trans. Lisa Katz):
Fernando Pessoa (trans. Margaret Hull Costas and Patricio Ferrari):
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