"To something upper wooing us"
Dickinson, Plath, Ryan, Guillén, Char
Emily Dickinson:
The fascinating chill/that Music leaves/Is Earth’s corroboration/Of Ecstasy’s impediment—/'Tis Rapture’s germination/In timid and tumultuous/soil/
A fine— estranging/creature—/To something upper/wooing us
Sylvia Plath, June 12, 1959:
Kay Ryan:
Jorge Guillén (trans. from Spanish by Cola Franzen):
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René Char (trans. from French by Samuel Beckett):
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