"To let go the means, to wake"
Rukeyser, Pilinszky, O'Hara, Appelfeld, H.D., Melville
Muriel Rukeyser:
János Pilinszky (trans. from Hungarian by János Csokits and Ted Hughes):
Frank O’Hara:
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Aharon Appelfeld:
H.D. [Hilda Doolittle], May 8, 1958:
Herman Melville:
White & green vortex in the blue—as when a ship sinks.
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