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Not that one. Or that one. Robert Frost.

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2 Poems by H. D.

8vo., saddle-stitched wraps. One of 200 copies. Poems by H. D. which first appeared in 1937, here illustrated after lithographs by Wesley Tanner.

Is a book by Joe Brainard.

Is a book by Joe Brainard.

from today’s Poem-A-Day, “Gila,” by Rigoberto González.

from today’s Poem-A-Day, “Gila,” by Rigoberto González.

But how are you going to get out, into the world of other people? That is your problem now, if I may hazard a guess—to find the right relationship, now that you know yourself, between the self that you know and the world outside. It is a difficult problem. No living poet has, I think, altogether solved it.
Virginia Woolf

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The Believer Logger: Interview with Rae Armantrout

believermag:

This is the fifth stop on poet Ali Liebegott’s pilgrimage across America to the Emily Dickinson house. Along the way, she interviewed female writers and poets, including Maggie Nelson, Amy Gerstler, Claudia Rankine and Sarah Shun-lien Bynum. Here is interview #5, with Rae…

Banned for a reason.  from Baudelaire’s Fleurs du Mal

Banned for a reason. 

from Baudelaire’s Fleurs du Mal

Happy Banned Book Week, Walt.

Happy Banned Book Week, Walt.

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Lustra by Ezra Pound. All of it.

Lustra by Ezra Pound. All of it.

jenbenka: at the end, love. or this by laura riding jackson published in “The Poems of Laura Riding” by Persea Books

jenbenka:

at the end, love. or this by laura riding jackson

published in “The Poems of Laura Riding” by Persea Books