"New York is a woman holding, according to history, a rag called liberty with one hand and strangling the earth with the other."
— Adunis

January 1, 1970

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"The Funeral of New York" (1971), from The Pages of Day and Night, trans. Samuel Hazo and Esther Allen (Northwestern University Press, 2000, .