World Poetry Translation Project

Submit Human Translation | Discuss Poem | Post Poetry | Listen McGill Live Looking, Walking, Being by Denise Levertov "The World is not something to look at, it is something to be in." Mark Rudman I look and look. Looking's a way of being: one becomes, sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever looking takes one. The eyes dig and burrow into the world. They touch fanfare, howl, madrigal, clamor. World and the past of it, not only visible present, solid and shadow that looks at one looking. And language? Rhythms of echo and interruption? That's a way of breathing. breathing to sustain looking, walking and looking, through the world, in it. American Review | www.PaperLyon.com | McGill Live Radio | Publish

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Poems by Denise Levertov Adams Complaint An Embroidery Intrusion Looking Walking Being Seeing For A Moment The Ache Of Marriage The Secret The Thread Variation On A Theme By Rilke Wanting The Moon Zeroing In

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D.H. Lawrence	Dame Edith Sitwell	Dante Alighieri
David Berman	David Ignatow	David Lehman
Delmore Schwartz	Denise Levertov	Derek Walcott
Diane Wakoski	Don Patterson	Donald Hall
Donald Justice	Dorothy Parker	Dylan Thomas

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