"Wandering the split paths"
Ashbery, Whitman, Zurita, Rilke, Mandelstam, Kelly
John Ashbery:
Walt Whitman:
Raúl Zurita (trans. Daniel Borzutzky):
Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. Stephen Mitchell), Feb. 22, 1923:
Osip Mandelstam (trans. W.S. Merwin):
Brigit Pegeen Kelly:
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