"you're invisible once more"
Kenyon, Green, Dixon, Buson, Ben Yair, Jefferson
Jane Kenyon:
Leah Naomi Green:
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Melvin Dixon:
Yosa Buson (tr. from Japanese by R.H. Blyth):
Sigal Ben Yair (tr. from Hebrew by Joanna Chen):
Blind Lemon Jefferson, “See That My Grave is Kept Clean,” rec. 1927:
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