Dear Editor,
Before the time slips away, I add my praise for the wonderful notebook selections from Anna Kamienska [“Industrious Amazement,” tr. by Clare Cavanagh, March 2011] which—like the first excerpts—fulfill my idea of true “found poetry,” if we understand poetry as a condensation or distillation to purest elements.
I hope Cavanagh is encouraged by the response to publish a book-length translation of Kamienska’s notebook. In any event, having the taste to publish something this sublime, Poetry must be forgiven any number of future lapses.