"the boat has not turned to stone"
Merwin, Shinkawa, Kenyon, Pinsky, Bidart
W.S. Merwin:
Kazue Shinkawa (tr. from Japanese by Hiroaki Sato):
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Robert Pinsky:
Frank Bidart:
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The Bidart analogy, perfection