"The sky was a hot, blue sheet"
Osier, Dawes, Akhmatova, Dungy, Stevenson, Tristano
Jill Osier:
Kwame Dawes:
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Anna Akhmatova (tr. from Russian by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward):
Camille T. Dungy:
Robert Louis Stevenson:
Lennie Tristano, rec. June 11, 1955:
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