What is the wander, what aimless shelter, what within
a very small room. Or we could call it a city. Or we could build a city
in which you could walk without a future. The habit of detour
that prefigured the dérive. Or simply the gentle persistence of walking
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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
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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 […]
from “Henry David Thoreau: ‘Walking'”
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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 […]
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