"the week became forever"
Singer, Gilbert, Hall, Cavafy, Ohno, Sappho, Nevelson
Isaac Bashevis Singer (trans. Saul Bellow):
Christopher Gilbert:
Donald Hall:
C.P. Cavafy (trans Edmund Keely and Philip Sherrard):
Kazuo Ohno:
Sappho (trans. Anne Carson):
Louise Nevelson:
I believe, too, that the artist is still in our times the last of free people.  While he can’t be totally free, he’s the last of wanting that way of living and saying what he has to say. And when that is lost, I think it will be a great tragedy. Because the spirit will not be alive.
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