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Nov/Dec 2015 • Vol. XXXVII No. 6 • Walking with Poets |

from “Henry David Thoreau: ‘Walking'”

By Cole Swensen

Listening to ice crack itself across winter—it was the winter
of 1845, and the Second Great Awakening was ending all

over New England in which someone coming down a road
looking so familiar is so little different from someone suddenly

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Cole Swensen is the author of twenty books of poetry, most recently And And And (Shearsman, 2023) and Art in Time (Nightboat, 2021). Previous volumes have won the Iowa Poetry Prize, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, and the National Poetry Series and have been finalists for the National Book Award and twice for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A translator of French poetry, prose, and art criticism, she divides her time between France and the US.

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William Blake

By Cole Swensen

To a country, we move slowly  to an answer  in a clock, or to a given tower, to walk  towers over in a glaze of field  said Already have an account? Log in Join […]

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Thomas De Quincey

By Cole Swensen

inveterately, the quintessential walker of the streets of London, wrote toward the end of his life that “the human face tyrannized” his dreams, which is not in strange weather,          which […]

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