"What in all that was real."
Kafka, Babel, Whitman, Milosz, Valentine, Holub
Franz Kafka (trans. Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins):
Isaac Babel (trans. Peter Constantine):
Walt Whitman:
Czeslaw Milosz (trans. Czeslaw Milosz and Lillian Vallee):
Jean Valentine:
Miroslav Holub (trans. David Young and Stuart Friebert):
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