"The Brain has Corridors"

Tsvetaeva, Niedecker, Kunitz, Saunders, Rich, Dickinson

Marina Tsvetaeva, 1932:

Lorine Niedecker to Louis Zukofsky, Dec 24, 1962:

I wonder if we dare to close the gap someday—What we feel, see, inside us and outside is melted together absolutely. Even I with lines into each other as 'Along the river'—your contrapuntals—

Stanley Kunitz:

George Saunders:

Adrienne Rich in Cambridge in 1958:

In those years formalism was part of the strategy—like asbestos gloves, it allowed me to handle materials I couldn't pick up bare-handed.

Emily Dickinson:

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