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Vsevolod Nekrasov, “The Soul”
Vsevolod Nekrasov’s “The Soul” scores a direct hit on the awkwardness of the word itself in poetry: The Soul Vsevolod Nekrasov The Soul /just kidding/ When I st...
Adam Zagajewski, “Segesta” (from “En Route”)
Often, I try to disassociate “natural” from the “natural world.” Yes, there are plants, animals, forces, and plagues. They are a world unto themselves, ap...
Emily Dickinson, “Presentiment — is that long Shadow — on the Lawn” (764)
Presentiment, Dickinson says. Pre-sentiment, I say. A feeling before the feeling. A feeling about the future, an omen (Vendler 23). A feeling before the f...
Adam Zagajewski, “Gulls” (from “En Route”)
The idea of travel can possess me with guilt. How dare I try to leave? To see something more, something new? If I were truly grateful, I would try to make the m...