I’ve been very, very sick this week, and decided it was the perfect state of mind to read Tender Buttons, one of those classics I’ve kept on my shelf for years and flipped through without ever sitting down and really reading. As poets.org says of it: “the book is perhaps more often written about than actually read.” Perhaps. And I’m not sure I can add anything significant to the extraordinary body of scholarship, translations, and creative responses to it. So here are some […]

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