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Vladimir Mayakovsky reads “А вы могли бы?” [And Could You?] (from 1913; English translation available here).
Paul Celan writes (in the notes and fragments collected under “Hostility to Art” in The Meridian):
“How does one make verses” º Mayakovsky tried to ask himself at a certain hour—withthis questionhe did. —the boat of his love shattered on the thusness \Sosein\ ⌊(and the refusal to want to be something other⌋ of human dailiness … Omnipotence puts it back together—
