"wrap-arounds and diatribes"
Kafka, Niedecker, Richter, Dickinson, Blanchfield
Franz Kafka, December 6, 1921:
Lorine Niedecker:
I can always / go back to / fertilization, / kimonos, wrap- / arounds and / diatribes.
Gerhard Richter (tr. from German by David Britt):
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Emily Dickinson:
Nature affects [was known] to be / sedate / Opon Occasion, grand / But let our observation / shut [
halt] / Her practises [qualities] extend / To Necromancy and the / Trades / Remote [astute • obscure] to understand / Behold our [my • this] spacious
Citizen / Unto a Juggler turned -
Brian Blanchfield:
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