Gary Snyder:
Gabriela Mistral (tr. from Spanish by Ursula K. Le Guin):
Jane Johnson Schoolcraft [Bamewawagezhikaquay / “Woman of the Sound that the Stars make Rushing Through the Sky”] (tr. from Ojibwe by Margaret Noodin):
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Lea Goldberg (tr. from Hebrew by Lisa Katz):
Malay figure (tr. by W.S. Merwin):
Nirvana, “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?,” rec. November 18, 1993:
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