Excerpt from a book, a yellow painting, St. Luke, and two poems by Seamus Heaney
The Spiritual Canticle
St. John of the Cross, 1622
Autobiography of Red
A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson
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Hölderlin, an occurrence of chance & necessity
[In lovely blue…]
Friedrich Hölderlin, c. 1801-1807
Red Bird
Everything is seen & heard
The Departure of the Prodigal Son
Rainer Maria Rilke, 1907
The Bowl of Roses
Rainer Maria Rilke, 1907
Vita Nuova
Dante, 1292-4
In Durance
Ezra Pound, 1909