World Poetry Translation Project

Submit Human Translation | Discuss Poem | Post Poetry | Listen McGill Live Lit Instructor by William Stafford Day after day up there beating my wings with all the softness truth requires I feel them shrug whenever I pause: they class my voice among tentative things, And they credit fact, force, battering. I dance my way toward the family of knowing, embracing stray error as a long-lost boy and bringing him home with my fluttering. Every quick feather asserts a just claim; it bites like a saw into white pine. I communicate right; but explain to the dean-- well, Right has a long and intricate name. And the saying of it is a lonely thing. American Review | www.PaperLyon.com | McGill Live Radio | Publish

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W.H. Auden	W.S. Merwin	Wallace Stevens
Walt Whitman	Walter Savage Landor	Wang Wei
Weldon Kees	Wendell Berry	Wilfred Owen
William Barnes	William Blake	William Butler Yeats
William Carlos Williams	William Collins	William Cowper
William Drummond	William Ernest Henley	William Lisle Bowles
William Shakespeare	William Stafford	William Wordsworth
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