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… The Murderer Men who go into competition with the world are broken into fragments by the … the shoulders down—never the head, unless you want them to die of meningitis.” How his father had stolen a sacred … before they could tell him what they thought of him they also noticed the threatening slouch, and the mad look in his …

… camp in the world. (Is it coincidental that this camp is also in Africa, the most historically neglected continent … whose dust-covered faces, hands, and feet turned their bodies into sand ghosts, my children were back home in … and dispensations so acutely, I truly believed my comfort did not authorize me to speak. And further, hadn’t I …

… a storm of symbolism, wearing saffron garments—a move that commentators from India Today, a prominent English-language … five hundred miles southeast of New Delhi, Varanasi, also called Benares, is the spiritual capital of India. Not … To bathe in the Ganges is to be purified of all sins; to die in Varanasi is to reach moksha, the transcendent state …

… figure rising up from the sand, tempting me to kiss her and die of thirst. I plod ahead in search of an oasis, if I can …

… muslin, From the heartbeat whose silence makes the world die? Having proposed such a vision, Miłosz undoes it with … version of civilization that the poet will present to us comes from “our net.” Woven from signs, hieroglyphs, vision, … Since his other versions occupy far fewer lines, we may also infer that language itself is the essential measure of …