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What if “to Ashbery” were an infinitive?
<<<Ashbery says he just reread an essay by Auden in which the poet called the Oxford English Dictionary "his most treasured reading" and praised the language as large, yet lenient, noting how Shakespeare would…
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“By the Waters of Babylon” [by San Juan de la Cruz; trans. Marian Baranda and Paul Hoover]
By the rushing watersI discovered in Babylon,there I sat down weeping,there I watered the earth. Remembering you,oh, Zion, whom I loved;sweet was your memory,in memory, I cried all the more. …
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“By the Waters of Babylon” [by San Juan de la Cruz; trans. Marian Baranda and Paul Hoover]
By the rushing watersI discovered in Babylon,there I sat down weeping,there I watered the earth. Remembering you,oh, Zion, whom I loved;sweet was your memory,in memory, I cried all the more. …
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The Art of Falling [by Lera Auerbach]
Papa takes me to figure-skating school.The school has classes every day: running, choreography,floor gymnastics, figure skating. With skates over my shoulder,we come to the school half an hour before the classes begin.Putting on skates…
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The Art of Falling [by Lera Auerbach]
Papa takes me to figure-skating school.The school has classes every day: running, choreography,floor gymnastics, figure skating. With skates over my shoulder,we come to the school half an hour before the classes begin.Putting on skates…
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The Bonus Round (by Mitch Sisskind)
I'm in the Bonus Round! All the sights! All the sounds! Nothing is out of the question Now that I'm in the Bonus Round!
