Date: 1817
"My friend has drawn a masterly sketch of the branches with their poetic fruitage. I wish to add the trunk, and even the roots as far as they lift themselves above the ground, and are visible to the naked eye of our common consciousness."
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Date: August, 1965
"His mind's all black thickets / and blood."
preview | full record— Harrison, Jim (1937-2016)
Date: 1990
"I did not know the soul / is cleaved so that the soul might be restored. / Live wood hewn, / its sap springs from a sticky wound."
preview | full record— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)