"You get up to close that clear brittle door"
Anonymous, Drummond, Xiong, O'Hara, Levine
Anonymous (tr. from 2000 B.C. Akkadian by Jerome Rothenberg):
Carlos Drummond de Andrade (tr. from Portuguese by Richard Zenith):
Khaty Xiong:
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Frank O’Hara:
Philip Levine:
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