"whether it is air or it is nothing"
Davis, Brainard, Perse, García Lorca, Clifton, O'Hara, Kunitz, Plath
Lydia Davis:
Joe Brainard:
Saint-John Perse (trans. T.S. Eliot):
Federico García Lorca (trans. W.S. Merwin):
Lucille Clifton:
Frank O’Hara:
Stanley Kunitz:
Sylvia Plath, March 11, 1959:
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