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English, Read More Women, World, Russian, Russia, Poetry, Collection, Languages, Translations, Marina Tsvetaeva, Ilya Kaminsky

To Kiss a Forehead by Marina Tsvetaeva

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14 December 2025

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“To kiss the lips is to drink water.” — Marina Tsvetaeva

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forgetting, readalittlepoetry, tenderness, poetry, comfort

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English, Read More Women, World, Black Poets, United States of America, Natasha Trethewey, Poetry, Collection, Languages

How the Past Comes Back by Natasha Trethewey

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“the neglected hydrangea / endlessly blossoming– / year after year / each bloom a blue refrain” — Natasha Trethewey

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English, World, Geoffrey Brock, Italian, Italy, Cesare Pavese, Poetry, Collection, Languages, Translations

The Cats Will Know by Cesare Pavese

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9 September 2022

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"You too will make gestures. / You’ll answer with words— / face of springtime, / you too will make gestures."

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spring, relationships, healing, despair, loss, resilience, wounds, forgetting, surviving, cats, poetry

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English, World, United States of America, W.S. Merwin, Poetry, Languages

Wild Oats by W. S. Merwin

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"I needed my mistakes / in their own order / to get me here" — W. S. Merwin

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mistakes, language, dreams, growing up, garden, growing old, memory, forgetting, readalittlepoetry, poetry