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Ezra Pound’s Poem, “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”

Ezra Pound wrote this poem in 1915 (which he described as “after Rihaku”): While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played about the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You … Continue reading

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Poem for a Weekend: Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish”

I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his mouth. He didn’t fight. He hadn’t fought at all. He hung a grunting weight, battered and … Continue reading

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“Deliverance”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella

  bobbing like a jug   a naked body in the river   and on its back a crow   before men were here   there were rivers   and the round eyes of birds

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