"While you look, her edges crystallize"
Spicer, Akhmatova, Tranströmer, Baudelaire, Hamilton
Jack Spicer:
Anna Akhmatova (tr. from Russian by Lyn Coffin):
Tomas Tranströmer (tr. from Swedish by Robin Fulton):
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Charles Baudelaire (tr. from French by Richard Howard):
Saskia Hamilton:
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