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history + last words

[Text ID: But I check for you in the wind. / Night opens me and it’s you.”]

— Marina Tsvetaeva, “In Paris,” My Poems: Selected Poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva (tr. Andrey Kneller)

~ Shakespeare, Macbeth

Emily Dickinson, To March

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But how to make sense of her Duncan? What do you mean? All her fragments, she makes me feel as if language is miserably insufficient, broken.

Vita and Virginia (2018), dir. Chanya Button

Arthur Rimbaud, tr. by William Jay Smith, from Collected Translations; “The Strolling Player,”

Sandra Cisneros

Forugh Farrokhzad, Reborn; from ‘Green Phantasm’, tr. Sholeh Wolpé

— Forugh Farrokhzad, from “The Captive”, Another Birth and Other Poems (Mage Publishers, 2010)

— Forugh Farrokhzad, from “Lost,” tr. Sholeh Wolpé, Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad

— Forugh Farrokhzad