Sonnet 58 | A poem by Shuntaro Tanikawa, 1953
Herbert List, Park of the Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo, near Rome, Italy, 1952 . It’s distance that makes mountains mountains. Looked...
Poems
The Wide Ocean | A poem by Pablo Neruda, 1950
Fred Stein, Orchard Beach , New York, 1946 . Ocean, if you were to give, a measure, a ferment,...
Break, Break, Break | A poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1835
Roy Lichtenstein, Sea Shore, 1964 . Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that...
The Love Poems of Marichiko | Kenneth Rexroth, 1978
Édouard Boubat, A Gentle Eye, 1970 . I I sit at my desk. What can I write to you? Sick...
Various Portents | Alice Oswald, 2005
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) Untitled, 1969 . Various stars. Various kings. Various sunsets, signs, cursory insights. Many minute attentions, many knowledgeable...
The World Is As It Appears | Miguel Hernández (1910-1942)
Miguel Hernández - Josefina Marhuenda . The world is as it appears before my five senses, and before yours, which...
The Rug / Night Words: The Ravishing | Michael McClure, 1955-2020
Nat Farbman - Poet Michael McClure, California, 1957 . I ' d draw all this into a fine element ,...
Emanuel Swedenborg | A poem by Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986
Emanuel Swedenborg The Flying Machine, sketched in his notebook, 1714 . Taller than the others, this man Walked among them,...
Possibilities | Wislawa Szymborska, 1997
Egon Schiele - Double Self-portrait with Wally, 1913I prefer movies.I prefer cats.I prefer the oaks along the Warta.I prefer Dickens...
Canto XIII | A poem by Ezra Pound, 1925
Prunus mume blossoms . Kung walked by the dynastic temple and into the cedar grove, and then out by the...