Nada asks why she wrote "hummingbird fever".
My guess is she was thinking of the book Nightingale Fever, a study of Mandelstam (who originated the phrase), Akhmatova & Pasternak (? or Tsvetaeva), by British poet & translator D.M. Thomas.
Or it could be coincidence.
6.01.2003
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