Selected Poems, 1923-67Delacorte Press, 1972 - 328 pages |
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... dark breeze across the forehead that turns back , and graven streets on the Southside , one by one to be savored , and a dark breeze in my face as I walk home . My own translation of " Conjectural Poem " started out as an attempt to ...
... dark breeze across the forehead that turns back , and graven streets on the Southside , one by one to be savored , and a dark breeze in my face as I walk home . My own translation of " Conjectural Poem " started out as an attempt to ...
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... dark hemisphere . Nights act that way , I tell you . The surge , that night , left me the customary shreds and odd ends : some hated friends to chat with , music for dreams , and the smok- ing of bitter ashes . The things my hungry ...
... dark hemisphere . Nights act that way , I tell you . The surge , that night , left me the customary shreds and odd ends : some hated friends to chat with , music for dreams , and the smok- ing of bitter ashes . The things my hungry ...
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... darkness ? What good is the word that speaks for me now in my name , If the curse of the dark is implacably one and the same ? Groussac or Borges , I watch the delectable World first disfigure then extinguish itself In a pallor of ashes ...
... darkness ? What good is the word that speaks for me now in my name , If the curse of the dark is implacably one and the same ? Groussac or Borges , I watch the delectable World first disfigure then extinguish itself In a pallor of ashes ...
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