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The Politics of Epiphany
It occurs to me that all poets at some point in their lives experience something of the profound, and the nature of this experience colors and informs their writing from that point forward. Robert Graves might have said it is … Continue reading
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Tagged absurdity, creativity, exceptions, James Joyce, normalcy, poetry, profundity, Robert Graves, The White Goddess, writing
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Cantos This
That Pound should from the castle walls on high weight his Cantos with bricks, and with great gusto and abandon hurl these gems into the fosse so that the Philistines encamped and overnight drawn nigh should fall prey to such … Continue reading
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Tagged Cantos, Ezra Pound, jibberish, language, literature, poetry, profundity, writing
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