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William Saphier was a Romanian-born poet and painter who served as associate editor for Others, a monthly modernist magazine he coedited with Alfred Kreymborg. Other members of the editorial staff included Maxwell Bodenheim, Helen Hoyt, Lola Ridge, and William Carlos Williams. The magazine, under Saphier and Kreymborg, published the early poetry of T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Williams, among others.
A green and copper-backed frog
keeps me from seeing
brick-colored eucalyptus flowers
dancing on an apple-green sky;
large rose-hued cotton fists
with gold knuckles
chase a blushing sun
into a purple, lead sea:
I am hungry and he is cautious.
Tomaž Šalamun was born on July 4, 1941, in Zagreb, Croatia, and grew up in Koper, Slovenia. In...
Born in 1887, Marianne Moore wrote with the freedom characteristic of the other Modernist poets,...
José Garcia Villa was born in Manila in 1908. He published several poetry collections in the...
Born on July 21, 1899, in Garrettsville, Ohio, Harold Hart Crane began writing poetry in his...
Born in Missouri on September 26, 1888, T. S. Eliot is the author of The Waste Land, which...
