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<pre style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">THE POTTER</span></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">by Pablo Neruda</span></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pablo Neruda / El alfarero</span></pre>
<pre><br /></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Your whole body has
a fullness or a gentleness destined for me.
When I move my hand up
I find in each place a dove
that was seeking me, as
if they had, love, made you of clay
for my own potter's hands.
Your knees, your breasts,
your waist
are missing parts of me like the hollow
of a thirsty earth
from which they broke off
a form,
and together
we are complete like a single river,
like a single grain of sand.
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Ficcioneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11113302074119512881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277488048470036745.post-2522435124115165562024-03-02T03:46:00.002-05:002024-03-02T03:46:12.003-05:00Agha Shahid Ali / From Another Desert<p> </p><span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaQJTup5-S2Vl08R9FsrCcaRzn-b_xS5vdb-6w0WF65O8iTRNP0lkXrtvSaZMeJwMe7oBdlKp-dDlDQR3toyAlUg22XRAF6azrdAiWIi0jFoeH-SF_KqWczcAIIV1DtRxnxBrjlhkTCgb-yyBmEWntmCAtoNN-0y5SjjYTzhyphenhyphenGXkOpr2sjv_jf9LtgJWQ/s1180/personaje%20003es.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1180" data-original-width="1000" height="671" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaQJTup5-S2Vl08R9FsrCcaRzn-b_xS5vdb-6w0WF65O8iTRNP0lkXrtvSaZMeJwMe7oBdlKp-dDlDQR3toyAlUg22XRAF6azrdAiWIi0jFoeH-SF_KqWczcAIIV1DtRxnxBrjlhkTCgb-yyBmEWntmCAtoNN-0y5SjjYTzhyphenhyphenGXkOpr2sjv_jf9LtgJWQ/w568-h671/personaje%20003es.jpg" width="568" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: center;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">FROM ANOTHER DESERT</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: center;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">by Agha Shahid Ali</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; 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--tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />rivers lined with skeletons</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">Wings beat<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; 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--tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">2.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">Each statue will be broken<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />if the heart is a temple. When</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">the gods return, from the ends<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />of the fasting sky, they’ll stand</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">in the rain and knock and knock.<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />They’ll force open the heart.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">In the grief of ruins, they’ll pick<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />up their severed arms</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">and depart and depart and depart.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"> </p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">3.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">There again is memory<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />at my doorstep—</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">jasmine crushed under<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />departing feet.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">The moon extinguishes<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />its silver pain</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">on the window.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"> </p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">4.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">Cries Majnoon:</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">Those in tatters<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />may now demand love:</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"> I’ve declared a fashion<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /> of ripped collars.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">The breezes are lost<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />travellers today,</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"> knocking, asking<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /> for a place to stay.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"> I tell them<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /> to go away.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">All night they knock, asking<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />if the Beloved<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />had ever passed this way.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"> All night I keep<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /> the heart shut.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">I’m waiting for a greater madness:</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"> to declare<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /> myself<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /> to the Hangman.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"> </p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">5.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">Who now weeps<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />at the crossroads,</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">remembers the directions<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />that led so soon</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">to betrayal,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />the disappearance</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">of all wayfarers<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />when it was almost</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">the morning?<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />Some went back,</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">folding breezes<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />in their wallets.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">Some ran ahead,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />the sun divided</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">among them, eclipses<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />hidden in their eyes.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"> </p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">6.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">Majnoon was again sighted<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />in the streets, intoxicated</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">as before, surpassing the rapture<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />of every mad lover.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"> </p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">7.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">In prison Majnoon weeps for Satan:</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">And Iblis bereft of dreams would still not bow to man Qais weep for Iblis a<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />lover like you lover of God that cruel Beloved Qais welcome the knives the<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />stones but never bow to man learn from Iblis survive somehow survive in Hell<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />each day this memory the echo of the Beloved’s voice telling one to go to Hell</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"> </p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">8.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">The prisoners know they’ve been<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />eclipsed, that someone</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">greater than them is now<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />among them. For though they know</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">the rattle of bound ankles,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />they’ve never heard</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">such sorrow before,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />this pounding, this beating down of the floor,</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">this plaint,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />all night, of feet in chains.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"> </p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">9.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">Ambushed in century after century by the police of God<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />the broken Ishmaels cry out in the blazing noons</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">welcoming the knives the stones rained down on them</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">again declared madmen by the government of Sorrow</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">And Majnoon also among them with bare hands<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />digs graves in the desert</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">crying out for his dead Laila</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">his back broken by a giant teardrop<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />inside it the ruins of Jerusalem or Beirut</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">or another rival to the garden of paradise<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />where his heart broke and broke centuries ago</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"> </p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">*The Arabic love story of Qais and Laila is used—in Urdu and Persian literature—to cite the exalting power of love. Qais is called Majnoon (literally “possessed” or “mad”) because he sacrificed everything for love. The legend has acquired a political dimension.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px;">Agha Shahid Ali is from Kashmir, India. His book, </span><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px;">The Half-Inch Himalayas</em><span style="font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px;">, is published by Wesleyan University Press. His second book, </span><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px;">A Nostalgist’s Map of America</em><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px;">,</em><span style="font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px;"> is forthcoming from W.W. Norton.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Univers LT Std;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><a href="https://bombmagazine.org/articles/1991/07/01/from-another-desert/">BOMB</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Univers LT Std;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK_9WKs_OVHxIwmhfVBA6lp0zeWB5Fu2IXYw2hHLxUh0E49r7Hum4rX061YnGcPzjFxkVYBRo6bC-bYmYgruRX5l1KOIkK6XsdGbp0KChTbikSDZB9SH2RaF9KGzsPn218X0m9_99rOgc6fADxYAiRGihz9Q5Mnfss280Lg3FEAaIS5H9FU5qPTLMbH7Q/s155/0000%20Kiss.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="124" data-original-width="155" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK_9WKs_OVHxIwmhfVBA6lp0zeWB5Fu2IXYw2hHLxUh0E49r7Hum4rX061YnGcPzjFxkVYBRo6bC-bYmYgruRX5l1KOIkK6XsdGbp0KChTbikSDZB9SH2RaF9KGzsPn218X0m9_99rOgc6fADxYAiRGihz9Q5Mnfss280Lg3FEAaIS5H9FU5qPTLMbH7Q/s1600/0000%20Kiss.jpg" width="155" /></a></div><p></p>Ficcioneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11113302074119512881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277488048470036745.post-50546595788428061202024-02-23T09:52:00.004-05:002024-02-23T09:55:08.089-05:00Five Poems by Roque Dalton<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><figure class="article-image" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><img alt="708 170885159 06042015 Italo Scanga 01 Bomb 09" class="block mx-auto mb-2" src="https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/bomb-images/_eightHundred/170885159-06042015-italo_scanga_01_bomb_09.jpg" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" /></figure><div class="w-full lg:w-[100%] articleRow" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; 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--tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"></p><h1 class="title-heading text-3xl lg:text-5xl mb-4" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 64px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; text-align: left;">Five Poems </h1><h1 class="title-heading text-3xl lg:text-5xl mb-4" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 64px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; text-align: left;">by Roque Dalton</h1><div class="uppercase text-black text-xl font-normal mb-4 lg:mb-10" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.75rem; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;"><br /></div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">El Salvador Will Be</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">El Salvador will be a beautiful<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />and without exception, a dignified country<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />when the working class and the people of the countryside<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />enrich it, bathe, powder and groom it,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />when they cure the historical hangover<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />and add enough to it by a hundred fold<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />to reconstitute it<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />and start it moving along.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">The problem is that today El Salvador<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />has a thousand incentives and a hundred thousand inequalities,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />cancers, castoffs, dandruff, filth,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />sores, fractures, weak knees and offensive breath.<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />A few machetes will be given it<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />also restored self esteem, turpentine, penicillin,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />bathrooms with toilets and toilets with seats,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />kisses and gunpowder.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Translated from the Spanish by Zoë Anglesey.</em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">From</em> Poesía Elegida<em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">, Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 1981.</em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"> </p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">The New Schools</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">In ancient Greece<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />Aristotle taught philosophy to his disciples<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />while they walked across a large courtyard.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">Because of this his school was called “the peripatetic.”</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">Fighting poets<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />are peripateticker than those Aristotelian peripatetics<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />because we apprehend the philosophy and poetry of the people<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />while traveling<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />through the cities and mountains of our land.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Translated from the Spanish by Jack Hirschman.</em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">From</em> The Dalmo’ma Anthology<em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">, Empty Bowl Press, Port Townsend, 1982.</em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"> </p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">No I Wasn’t Always So Ugly</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">The thing is I have a fractured nose<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />the <em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">tico</em> Lizano gave me with a brick<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />because I said it was obviously a foul<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />and he said no, no, no<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />I’ll never again turn my back on a Guatemalan soccer player<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />Father Achaerandio nearly died of fright<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />since in the end there was more blood than on an Aztec altar<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />and then it was Quique Soler who hit me in the right eye<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />with the most perfectly thrown rock you can imagine<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />sure we were only trying to reenact the landing on Okinawa<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />but what I got was a ruptured retina<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />a month confined to bed (at eleven!)<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />a visit to Doctor Quevedo in Guatemala<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />and to Doctor Bidford who wore a red wig<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />that’s why I sometimes squint<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />and look like a dazed drug addict when I come out the movies<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />the other reason is the rum bottle blow<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />Maria Elena’s husband gave me<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />I really meant no harm<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />but then every husband is a world<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />and if we consider that he thought I was an Argentine diplomat<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />we have to say thank God<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />the next time was in Prague we never knew who did it<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />four thugs jumped me in a dark alley<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />two blocks from the Ministry of Defense<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />and four blocks from the offices of State Security<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />it was the night before the opening of the Party Congress<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />for which reason someone said it was an anti-Congress demonstration<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />(at the hospital I ran into two more delegates<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />who had come out of their respective assaults<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />with more bones than ever)<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />someone else thought it was the CIA trying to get even for my escape<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />from jail<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />still others that is was an example of anti-Latin American racism<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />and some of nothing more than the universal appetite for robbery<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />Comrade Sobolev came to ask me<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />if I hadn’t pinched the ass of some escorted woman<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />before protesting to the Ministry of the Interior<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />in the name of the Russian Party<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />there were finally no leads<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />and again we have to say thank God<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />that I continued as the offended party to the end<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />during an investigation carried out in Kafka’s homeland<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />in any case (and for what’s of interest to me here)<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />the results were<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />a double fracture of the lower maxillary<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />a severe cerebral concussion<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />a month and a half in the hospital<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />and two more months swallowing even beefsteaks as a liquid<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />and the last time<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />was when I was coming down a hillside in the rain<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />with an iron pipe in my arms<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />when suddenly a bull comes out of who knows where<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />I got my ankles tangled in the weeds and started to fall<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />the bull rushed by but since it was a huge prick<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />it wouldn’t turn around to finish me off<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />still it wasn’t necessary because<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />as I was saying I fell on the pipe<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />which didn’t know what else to do except spring back like a revolution<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />in Africa<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />and it broke my zygomatic arch (which is crucial<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />to the aesthetic quality of the cheekbones) into three pieces<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />That at least in part explains my problem</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Translated from the Spanish by Robert Marquez</em> The Massachusetts Review<em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">, 1974.</em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Poem of Love</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">They who widened the Panama Canal<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />(and were classified “silver roll” and “gold roll”),<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />they who repaired the Pacific fleet at California bases,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />they who rotted in the jails of Guatemala,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua *<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />for being thieves, smugglers, swindlers, for being hungry,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />they always suspicious of everything<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />("permit me to haul you in as a suspect<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />for hanging out on corners suspiciously, and furthermore<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />with the pretentious air of being Salvadorian"),<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />they who packed the bars and brothels of all the ports<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />and capitals of the region<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />(“The Blue Cave,” “Hot Pants,” “Happyland”),<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />the planters of corn deep in foreign jungles,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />the kings of cheap porn,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />they who no one knows where they come from,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />the best artisans of the world,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />they who were stitched by bullets crossing the border,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />they who died of malaria<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />or by the sting of scorpions or yellow fever<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />in the hell of banana plantations,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />the drunkards who cried for the national anthem<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />under a cyclone of the Pacific or northern snows,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />the moochers, the beggars, the dope pushers,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">guanaco</em> sons of bitches,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />they who hardly made it back,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />they who had a little more luck,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />the eternally undocumented,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />the jack-of-all trades, the hustlers, the gluts,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />the first the flash a knife,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />the sad, the saddest of all,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />my people, my brothers.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">*Somoza’s era in Nicaragua.</em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Translated from the Spanish by Zoë Anglesey and Daniel Flores Ascencio.</em></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLGmxA_gtB3iVPxrJ7gjgStr55tquM68NzdhcFYLnAXiqhT1nUOZF1fwwFhEnRC4hygDUjHHvIYh5lflw-j2Kr2JfMMzHtCVXEVk302o-Y-5gKUzfK0myIustdNREGTz2k-Xgcu5LNjqpGH6YceYSv_rt4pmxBhigOwAWEKFhAEKcHCM4ooQsBjxYJ5KI/s800/corazon%20roto%20003wwws.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="800" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLGmxA_gtB3iVPxrJ7gjgStr55tquM68NzdhcFYLnAXiqhT1nUOZF1fwwFhEnRC4hygDUjHHvIYh5lflw-j2Kr2JfMMzHtCVXEVk302o-Y-5gKUzfK0myIustdNREGTz2k-Xgcu5LNjqpGH6YceYSv_rt4pmxBhigOwAWEKFhAEKcHCM4ooQsBjxYJ5KI/w558-h434/corazon%20roto%20003wwws.jpeg" width="558" /></a></div><br /><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><br /></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Third Poem of Love</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">Whoever tells you our love is extraordinary<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />because it was born of extraordinary circumstances<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />tell him we’re struggling now<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />so that a love like ours<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />(a love among comrades in battle)<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />becomes<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />the most ordinary and flowing,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />almost unparalleled,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />love in El Salvador.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">From</em> The Dalmo’ma Anthology<em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">, Empty Bowl Press, Port Townsend, 1982.</em></p></div></div><p><br /></p><p>***</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px;">Roque Dalton was born in El Salvador in 1935. He lived as a political exile in Guatemala, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, and Cuba. In his own country he was hunted and imprisoned several times. As an internationally prize-winning poet he also published books on literature, social science and political theory. He returned to El Salvador to join a revolutionary army. As part of a misdirected internal struggle later repudiated by all parties, Roque Dalton was killed in 1975.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Univers LT Std"; font-size: 20px;"><a href="https://bombmagazine.org/articles/1984/04/01/five-poems-15/">BOMB</a></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq-YLhBnn_zLqGE1w0ZrQSv8hppwMbPfsD2eAkW7MjW_WfAbH4NCGQTxV7jnRvEF1w0q-IXxyXiF6M484uzsbnF142ju8EpJcSAdCiFXPfkwNx8VbeCQmMz2EPQb7kwsBUarjgZdZUvXUCEqLj2heXEQ2Tf5sOi-N8brPjpypUfJ8Vynzju3bvFZ18pTY/s155/0000%20Kiss.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="124" data-original-width="155" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq-YLhBnn_zLqGE1w0ZrQSv8hppwMbPfsD2eAkW7MjW_WfAbH4NCGQTxV7jnRvEF1w0q-IXxyXiF6M484uzsbnF142ju8EpJcSAdCiFXPfkwNx8VbeCQmMz2EPQb7kwsBUarjgZdZUvXUCEqLj2heXEQ2Tf5sOi-N8brPjpypUfJ8Vynzju3bvFZ18pTY/s1600/0000%20Kiss.jpg" width="155" /></a></div>Ficcioneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11113302074119512881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277488048470036745.post-87998780369016959552024-02-18T12:09:00.006-05:002024-02-18T12:09:39.344-05:00Mary Oliver (1935 -2019)<p><br /></p><div class="o-article-media" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; 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font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="c-userContent" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mary Oliver </span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">(1935 - 2019)</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mary Oliver was an “indefatigable guide to the natural world,” wrote <a class="author-bio-link" href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/maxine-w-kumin" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Maxine Kumin</a> in the <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Women’s Review of Books,</span> “particularly to its lesser-known aspects.” Oliver’s poetry focused on the quiet of occurrences of nature: industrious hummingbirds, egrets, motionless ponds, “lean owls / hunkering with their lamp-eyes.” Kumin also noted that Oliver “stands quite comfortably on the margins of things, on the line between earth and sky, the thin membrane that separates human from what we loosely call animal.” Oliver’s poetry won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and a Lannan Literary Award for lifetime achievement<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span> Reviewing <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dream Work</span> (1986) for the <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nation,</span> critic <a class="author-bio-link" href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/alicia-ostriker" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Alicia Ostriker</a> numbered Oliver among America’s finest poets, as “visionary as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson.”<br /><br />Mary Oliver was born and raised in Maple Hills Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. She would retreat from a difficult home to the nearby woods, where she would build huts of sticks and grass and write poems. She attended both Ohio State University and Vassar College, but did not receive a degree from either institution. As a young poet, Oliver was deeply influenced by <a class="author-bio-link" href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/edna-st-vincent-millay" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Edna St. Vincent Millay</a> and briefly lived in Millay’s home, helping Norma Millay organize her sister’s papers. Oliver is notoriously reticent about her private life, but it was during this period that she met her long-time partner, Molly Malone Cook. The couple moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the surrounding Cape Cod landscape has had a marked influence on Oliver’s work. Known for its clear and poignant observations and evocative use of the natural world, Oliver’s poetry is firmly rooted in place and the Romantic nature tradition. Her work received early critical attention; <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">American Primitive </span>(1983)<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span>her fifth book, won the Pulitzer Prize. According to Bruce Bennetin the <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times Book Review</span>, <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">American Primitive,</span>“insists on the primacy of the physical.” Bennet commended Oliver’s “distinctive voice and vision” and asserted that the “collection contains a number of powerful, substantial works.” Holly Prado of the <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Los Angeles Times Book Review</span> also applauded Oliver’s original voice, writing that <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">American Primitive</span> “touches a vitality in the familiar that invests it with a fresh intensity.”<br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dream Work</span> (1986) continues Oliver’s search to “understand both the wonder and pain of nature” according to Prado in a later review for the <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Los Angeles Times Book Review.</span> Ostriker considered Oliver “among the few American poets who can describe and transmit ecstasy, while retaining a practical awareness of the world as one of predators and prey.” For Ostriker, <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dream Work</span> is ultimately a volume in which Oliver moves “from the natural world and its desires, the ‘heaven of appetite’ ... into the world of historical and personal suffering. ... She confronts as well, steadily,” Ostriker continued, “what she cannot change.”<br /><br />The transition from engaging the natural world to engaging more personal realms was also evident in <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New and Selected Poems </span>(1992), which won the National Book Award<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span> The volume contains poems from eight of Oliver’s previous volumes as well as previously unpublished, newer work. Susan Salter Reynolds, in the <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Los Angeles Times Book Review,</span> noticed that Oliver’s earliest poems were almost always oriented toward nature, but they seldom examined the self and were almost never personal. In contrast, Oliver appeared constantly in her later works. But as Reynolds noted “this self-consciousness is a rich and graceful addition.” Just as the contributor for <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Publishers Weekly</span> called particular attention to the pervasive tone of amazement with regard to things seen in Oliver’s work, Reynolds found Oliver’s writings to have a “Blake-eyed revelatory quality.” Oliver summed up her desire for amazement in her poem “When Death Comes” from <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New and Selected Poems:</span> “When it’s over, I want to say: all my life / I was a bride married to amazement. / I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.”<br /><br />Oliver continued her celebration of the natural world in her next collections, including <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems </span>(1999), <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why I Wake Early</span> (2004), <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New and Selected Poems, Volume 2</span> (2004<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">), </span>and <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Swan: Poems and Prose Poems </span>(2010). Critics have compared Oliver to other great American lyric poets and celebrators of nature, including <a class="author-bio-link" href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/marianne-moore" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Marianne Moore</a>, <a class="author-bio-link" href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/elizabeth-bishop" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Elizabeth Bishop</a>, <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/edna-st-vincent-millay" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Edna St. Vincent Millay</a>, and <a class="author-bio-link" href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/walt-whitman" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Walt Whitman</a>. “Oliver’s poetry,” wrote <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Poetry</span> magazine contributor <a class="author-bio-link" href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/richard-tillinghast" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Richard Tillinghast</a> in a review of <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">White Pine </span>(1994) “floats above and around the schools and controversies of contemporary American poetry. Her familiarity with the natural world has an uncomplicated, nineteenth-century feeling.” </p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A prolific writer of both poetry and prose, Oliver routinely published a new book every year or two. Her main themes continue to be the intersection between the human and the natural world, as well as the limits of human consciousness and language in articulating such a meeting. Jeanette McNew in <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Contemporary Literature </span>described “Oliver’s visionary goal,” as “constructing a subjectivity that does not depend on separation from a world of objects. Instead, she respectfully conferred subjecthood on nature, thereby modeling a kind of identity that does not depend on opposition for definition. … At its most intense, her poetry aims to peer beneath the constructions of culture and reason that burden us with an alienated consciousness to celebrate the primitive, mystical visions that reveal ‘a mossy darkness – / a dream that would never breathe air / and was hinged to your wildest joy / like a shadow.’” Her last books included <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Thousand Mornings </span>(2012), <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dog Songs </span>(2013), <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blue Horses </span>(2014), <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Felicity</span> (2015), <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Upstream: Selected Essays</span> (2016), and <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver </span>(2017).</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mary Oliver held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching at Bennington College until 2001. In addition to such major awards as the Pulitzer and National Book Award, Oliver received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She also won the American Academy of Arts & Letters Award, the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Prize and Alice Fay di Castagnola Award.<br /><br />Oliver lived in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Hobe Sound, Florida, until her death in early 2019. She was 83.</p></div></div></div></div><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mary-oliver">POETRY FOUNDATION</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRTQK9dhBQbieN3Ysv5ttWZN6UuqkjgBmMj8xkb1mzWwC8MhUGLvUrVkJSj_NQuGyt-8lJrtdeel2Ltxfvu_Xqws-CfIOg0sCPPRHziozAznYqw6Nrvcyo5_3YQUB6OQ1ZdYc-qKM8lXOYLw_pbqU_L-9nCTanwpO76mEcVPXKDNrs9MOLA6Z1vXgMXSs/s155/F4323D3F-136F-462E-B5E9-CB6AF15F92C8.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="124" data-original-width="155" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRTQK9dhBQbieN3Ysv5ttWZN6UuqkjgBmMj8xkb1mzWwC8MhUGLvUrVkJSj_NQuGyt-8lJrtdeel2Ltxfvu_Xqws-CfIOg0sCPPRHziozAznYqw6Nrvcyo5_3YQUB6OQ1ZdYc-qKM8lXOYLw_pbqU_L-9nCTanwpO76mEcVPXKDNrs9MOLA6Z1vXgMXSs/s1600/F4323D3F-136F-462E-B5E9-CB6AF15F92C8.jpeg" width="155" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Ficcioneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11113302074119512881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277488048470036745.post-30152960987911911352024-02-17T12:55:00.002-05:002024-02-17T12:55:21.760-05:00The Journey by Mary Oliver<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwfXWIroBKQ8bwww69JLiarn2Y-onRgNBtRnXsDpk94Ii8k_C9sOUtKHDmgCsnEz9S9qZ__9dsO2NU4nVAHrPVdJnvOOOx2RrHanh8EfKuOtD4bCsnLOq0HJOjJ5RE6oBSjCPY_VqstC6nQwvnLCzaktjnQtZnNTB9aCiCpQdmrc9WUDG0BnLeldakVAY/s568/DAE20333-89AA-4CEA-96E6-6E583D3DC382.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="460" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwfXWIroBKQ8bwww69JLiarn2Y-onRgNBtRnXsDpk94Ii8k_C9sOUtKHDmgCsnEz9S9qZ__9dsO2NU4nVAHrPVdJnvOOOx2RrHanh8EfKuOtD4bCsnLOq0HJOjJ5RE6oBSjCPY_VqstC6nQwvnLCzaktjnQtZnNTB9aCiCpQdmrc9WUDG0BnLeldakVAY/w324-h400/DAE20333-89AA-4CEA-96E6-6E583D3DC382.jpeg" width="324" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">THE JOURNEY </p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">By Mary Oliver</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">One day you finally knew</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">what you had to do, and began,</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">though the voices around you</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">kept shouting</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">their bad advice –</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">though the whole house</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">began to tremble</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">and you felt the old tug</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">at your ankles.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">“Mend my life!”</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">each voice cried.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">But you didn’t stop.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">You knew what you had to do,</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">though the wind pried</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">with its stiff fingers</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">at the very foundations,</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">though their melancholy</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">was terrible.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">It was already late</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">enough, and a wild night,</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">and the road full of fallen</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">branches and stones.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">But little by little,</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">as you left their voices behind,</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">the stars began to burn</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">through the sheets of clouds,</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">and there was a new voice</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">which you slowly</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">recognized as your own,</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">that kept you company</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">as you strode deeper and deeper</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">into the world,</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">determined to do</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">the only thing you could do –</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">determined to save</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">the only life that you could save.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><br /></p><p><br /></p>Ficcioneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11113302074119512881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277488048470036745.post-89097051029858760962024-01-25T04:53:00.002-05:002024-01-25T05:04:11.958-05:00Four Poems by Alasdair Gray<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ywoWbbddwy1ak_7TBPS7O75eFjVvexo_Oz3fzx0QQXXPbtLy3KI0fa-DRQWKqkZCvPivnSOaCbilq-MK_EM98HGlPa7iXefxr5UhHs-TEW47N-woBtQdAYBPTLA6KNdjkb-ToVDUeM4rS7D6hPQ4o1nq6BYsp1W9iyPRn67nHRqXvq-SlhRFJ674rAY/s1200/89C6D9CD-B515-490D-ABDA-45A9691C0861.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1106" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ywoWbbddwy1ak_7TBPS7O75eFjVvexo_Oz3fzx0QQXXPbtLy3KI0fa-DRQWKqkZCvPivnSOaCbilq-MK_EM98HGlPa7iXefxr5UhHs-TEW47N-woBtQdAYBPTLA6KNdjkb-ToVDUeM4rS7D6hPQ4o1nq6BYsp1W9iyPRn67nHRqXvq-SlhRFJ674rAY/w369-h400/89C6D9CD-B515-490D-ABDA-45A9691C0861.jpeg" width="369" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Alasdair Gray</span></p><p><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;">Alasdair Gray was born in Riddrie, Glasgow, on 28 December 1934, the son of Alexander and Amy Gray (née Fleming). He was evacuated during the war, then moved to Yorkshire where his father was working. He suffered his first asthma attack at this time and began writing. The family returned to Glasgow in 1946 and he attended Whitehill School where he won prizes for art and English. In 1952 he entered Glasgow School of Art and in 1954 began writing what would become the novel <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Lanark</span>, the ‘big fantastical Glasgow story’ he had first thought about in 1951. He graduated from art school in 1957 with a diploma in Design and Mural painting. Over the next years he made his living from a combination of teaching, painting murals and writing plays for radio (many of them produced by Stewart Conn) and television.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;">In 1961 he met and married a Danish nurse, Inge Sorenson, with whom he had a son, born in 1963. In 1972 he joined the writing group run by the academic and critic Philip Hobsbaum, where he met Tom Leonard and James Kelman. The following year Edwin Morgan helped him get an Arts Council grant to continue writing <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Lanark</span>, and by 1976 the book was more or less finished.</p><div class="read-more-block pk-d-print-none block-65b2293485208" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="pk-collapse show" id="collapse-65b2293485208" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;">The next two years were crucial: the Edinburgh publishers Canongate showed an interest in his novel and he signed a contract with them in 1978; and he was appointed Artist Recorder at the People’s Palace museum and Creative Writing Fellow at Glasgow University – so that he was able to work as both artist and writer. <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Lanark</span> was finally published in 1981 to great critical acclaim; it won the Frederick Niven Prize (often reported as the David Niven Prize!) for the year’s ‘most outstanding contribution to literature by a Scotsman or Scotswoman’. Thus began a life of constant writing; a stream of short stories and novels (including <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">1982, Janine</span> in 1984, which many – including Gray himself – regard as his finest novel) and a book of poems followed and he began work on his huge project <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">The Book of Preface</span>s (not published until 2000), with drawing and painting when he could fit them in. His novel <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Poor Things</span> won the both Whitbread Award and Guardian Prize for fiction in 1992.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;">Gray had separated from his wife in 1969 and subsequently divorced. He married again in 1991. His new wife, Morag McAlpine, who had had long experience in the book world, published some of his poems in 2000 under her own imprint. In 2001 he was appointed, with James Kelman and Tom Leonard, as Professor of Creative Writing at Glasgow University – they were known as the 3 Profs – though he gave up the position after a few years.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;">His work began to be collected: his plays, published in 2009; his poems, in 2010; and also in 2010 Gray produced a monumental ‘autopictography’, <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">A Life in Pictures</span>, bringing writing and art together to illustrate his own story. A retrospective of his writing life was the subject of an exhibition at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow in 2011.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;">Alasdair Gray was a polymath: an artist, a novelist, a polemicist – and a poet. He was best known for fiction, especially <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Lanark</span>, a novel which depicts both a Glasgow of the imagination (though still recognisable) and the personal journey of an artist through it. At one point the artist hero, Thaw, is asked whether he paints to give Glasgow a more imaginative life and he answers, ‘No. That’s my excuse. I paint because I feel cheap and purposeless when I don’t.’ Substitute ‘write’ for ‘paint’ and you had Gray’s raison d’être as an author. He had always written poems as well as stories and although it can be argued that his fiction is very personal and painfully honest, the essence of Gray’s wrestling with his demons – whether of love, lust, loss, illness, the politics of power – is laid bare in his poetry.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;">Gray’s poetry is not as well known as the fiction and artwork, but can be seen as a kind of distillation of all that concerns him: an ongoing commentary on life and art, his own and in general. The poems might be considered ‘difficult’; they are not immediately accessible in the way his fiction is, they are often more abstract. Indeed, one is grateful for the occasional reference to something tangible and recognisable, such as a tram in the street, or real people – his wife or son, for example. They deal with big ideas: God, love, power, art. But whether we ‘get’ them or not, they are obviously a personal working out of concerns and problems and it is this very personal element, this honesty, this laying bare of his soul (perhaps more so than with any other Scottish writer) that gives the poems their special quality, their charge. Gray has said in an interview that he only writes poems ‘when suffering a strong feeling of personal loss’.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;">His poems were published sporadically in magazines over many years and only first collected in 1989 in <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Old Negatives</span>. This gathering of over forty years’ worth of poems allows us to see a development, ‘even a narrative’, as Stuart Kelly says in what is the best account of his verse (in <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Alasdair Gray: Critical Appreciations</span>, 2002), where he makes the case for treating the poetry as seriously as the fiction, a narrative ‘that can not be fully comprehended through sampling the work in magazines’.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;">The poems here deal with love, faith and language. Gray has called them negatives because he says ‘they describe love mainly by its absences and reverses.’ They are mostly not cheery. The failed encounters read like compressed versions of episodes from <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Lanark</span> (e.g. ‘Loneliness’). There is the same painful honesty about love and lust to be found in the novels <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Lanark</span>, <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">1982, Janine</span> and <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Something Leather</span>. There is an abstract quality about many of the poems that makes them speak less directly to the reader, although you feel they are speaking directly to the author – he at least knows what they mean. Others are so direct as to make the reader gasp. And Gray’s irrepressible sense of humour does much to lighten things, as in the parody of a brief biography, ‘Awaiting’.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;">With <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Sixteen Occasional Poems 1990-2000</span> there is a change from what Kelly calls ‘the taut, interconnected and inter-textual universe of <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Old Negatives</span>’. There is still the personal (almost diary-like) detail – ‘am 55 my best work done’ – and the regrets. Kelly describes the poems as a series of chance encounters rather than an extended narrative. Subjects are more various and the language less stiff. There are pieces on postmoderism, a visually interesting diary from a trip to Berlin, poems written to accompany the artist Ian McCulloch’s prints, a poem to Tom Leonard, but still the same themes: love, god, language – themes dealt with in his vast <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Book of Prefaces</span>, on which he was working in the 1990s.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;">Gray continued to write poems until the end of his career and continued to write as truthfully, even painfully, as ever. One of his last poems has the line, ‘My son dislikes me now, is a real stranger.’ Stuart Kelly sums up his achievement as a poet: ‘a dispassionate, confessional voice; technical accomplishment utilised to convey meaning rather than for its own sake and a hard-won sense of the complexity of the universe…. His poetic work, especially when dealing with the relationship, or lack thereof, between the sexes, is memorable and disconcerting in the way only good poetry is.’</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;">Gray died on 29 December, 2019, but only after completing his three-book translation of Dante’s <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Divine Comedy</span>. The third book, <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Paradise,</span> proved to be a posthumous publication.</p><h1 class="entry-title pk-text-center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--xxx-large); letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 1.2; margin: 1.4rem 0px 0px; text-align: center;">FOUR POEMS</h1><h1 class="entry-title pk-text-center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--xxx-large); letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 1.2; margin: 1.4rem 0px 0px; text-align: center;">For Tom Leonard</h1><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white;">On God the Tree’s Scottish branch new buds grow.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white;">The feeblest prove it is no dead stick.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white;">You flower and fruit,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white;">drop seeds that take root.</span></p><h1 class="entry-title pk-text-center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--xxx-large); letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 1.2; margin: 1.4rem 0px 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></h1><h1 class="entry-title pk-text-center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--xxx-large); letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 1.2; margin: 1.4rem 0px 0px; text-align: center;">Awaiting</h1><div><br /></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white;">He was, and educated, and became,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white;">residing and remaining and intending,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white;">then on became in, and again,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white;">and later and later again.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white;">He still is, and hopes, and intends,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white;">and may</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white;">but is certain to –</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white;">one day.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white;"><br /></span></p><h1 class="entry-title pk-text-center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--xxx-large); letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 1.2; margin: 1.4rem 0px 0px; text-align: center;">Ripeness</h1><div><br /></div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;">It is three months since you taught me love can be fun<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />and one since you came to fruit,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />breasts weighty and silky.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Now I feel like I seem to you: old, ill-smelling,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />a body with whom nothing good can be done.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;">Untrue, of course. We can join again if<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />love is more than a noise made in bed.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />If not we are both lonely, in pain and afraid<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />to fruit. Oh trust me. I too can grow.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;">My fault was, when told the best possible news,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />to feel no delight. Allow time.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />With time I will show<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />that when you chose me, you chose right.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white;"><br /></span></p><h1 class="entry-title pk-text-center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--xxx-large); letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 1.2; margin: 1.4rem 0px 0px; text-align: center;">To Andrew, Before One</h1><div><br /></div><div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;">He holds a spoon, certain of what he holds:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />nothing more solid-certain than his spoon:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />at clenching fist and hard thing clenched, the same:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />no separation between noun and noun.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;">He waves the spoon, certain of what he waves:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />lost in the rhythm of the waving weight<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />the small face is remote and yet intent:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />to feel, think, dream and do are all the same:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />no separation between verb and verb.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;">He drinks his mother: sweetness is a tree<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />whose branches swing and feed him:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />mother, mouth, sweet and drinking are the same:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />no separation between noun and verb.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;">“You shall not” makes him know he is not God,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />dividing think from feel and dream from do,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />creating adjectives like good and bad,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />pronouns like you and me and mine and those,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />till home is a place minced into tiny words,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />the spoon a perilous thing no longer his<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />and food the bait of an enormous trap<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />he hardly will accept as universe.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/andrew-one/">SCOTTISH POETRY LIBRARY</a></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--70); margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIibOy8tvZogo4V0E11CItlYNbTll6xkQjNl51X3s0jPPvQa2UmI55aeMpTlP8OAW33BPs9GyIxgh0tabdUzZAH7Ul6mUjQsDxC3PFHPpFeJi2kNs_lkwZFjQ-PfPPFJ0JDJwjLo7STR6JZe50dMb21OgISZZc2k3mp44Ca8KoYloRzzB5pxUlOs4kCW0/s155/3FB7BE25-712E-4D75-9BAF-407B2138E57D.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="124" data-original-width="155" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIibOy8tvZogo4V0E11CItlYNbTll6xkQjNl51X3s0jPPvQa2UmI55aeMpTlP8OAW33BPs9GyIxgh0tabdUzZAH7Ul6mUjQsDxC3PFHPpFeJi2kNs_lkwZFjQ-PfPPFJ0JDJwjLo7STR6JZe50dMb21OgISZZc2k3mp44Ca8KoYloRzzB5pxUlOs4kCW0/s1600/3FB7BE25-712E-4D75-9BAF-407B2138E57D.jpeg" width="155" /></a></div></div></div></div>Ficcioneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11113302074119512881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277488048470036745.post-60351452430948043682024-01-21T05:13:00.009-05:002024-01-25T05:04:59.436-05:00The Secret Life By Patricia Lockwood<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 71, 70); color: #494746; font-family: Quadraat, TimesNewRoman, "Times New Roman", Times, Baskerville, Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="article-issue-info" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Ideal Sans", "Gill Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vol. 46 No. 2 · 25 January 2024</div></div><div class="cleanTitles" id="article-heading-holder" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 71, 70); color: #494746; font-family: Quadraat, TimesNewRoman, "Times New Roman", Times, Baskerville, Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 315px;"><h1 class="lrb-t-ct lrb-t-ce lrb-t-r" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.166em; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="title" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1.166em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Secret Life</span></h1><h2 class="lrb-t-ct lrb-t-ce lrb-t-r" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8f8e84; font-size: 28px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.166em; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="lrb-t-ct" href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/patricia-lockwood" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8f8e84; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s, border-color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline; will-change: color, border-color;">Patricia Lockwood</a></h2><div>December 2022</div><div><br /></div></div><p><span class="article-reviewed-item-title" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Molly </span><br style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /><span class="by" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">by <a class="underline" href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/search-results?search=Blake%20Butler" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 212); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494746; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s, border-color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline; will-change: color, border-color;">Blake Butler</a>.<br style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /><span class="item-meta" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Archway, 320 pp., £14</span></span></p><div class="paperArticle-avInline" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; 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outline: none;"><subxtechbodystart style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"></subxtechbodystart><div class="article-copy typogrify smartquotes lrb-t-t lrb-t-ce" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 40px; outline: none; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp has-dropcap" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="dropcaps dropcap--m" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 95px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; height: 60px; letter-spacing: -7px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px !important; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 26px 8px 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">M</span><span class="smallcapslede smallcapslede-spaced lrb-t-cac" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">olly Brodak</span> stood at the side of my bed, unscrolling her long life like a nightgown. Nearly forty years was long. She had died on 8 March 2020, and now her husband, the novelist Blake Butler, had written a book about her. I had just spent the night reading it on my phone, squinting at the long scroll turned sideways until one of the headaches started. They were the geniuses of headaches. There was generally no pain, but you walked into a surrounding black and a kind of schiller lit within you, a flash out of the ordinary. You were an apparition in some far grotto, rippling with rays. Even to call them headaches was a lyricism. You would feel, in the mirror, that your face did not belong to you. Or looking down the length of the bed, that your foot was too far away. Or that you had entered other people’s realities, rooms, that they were standing by the side of your bed, cool and silver, a column.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp has-dropcap" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk25OC3DZvJCBsWevqoB1xeneRWt_axV-dImC56DzWdfJhYefNI1YCj7eliFY3pKHp8LkgdQD9XJvSSFpnkqBTWzsGp8DXf5E1OpPJ81VcGD08msVJIRwFh6I2nw9Nm8pjLfsskyXZxUcRqo-vbe2zDiwRvdLco_v-B6Jk6u0zbRskmFQzsIGi63Ijgg0/s275/0AD1B31E-7D6A-4741-AC07-72C406DAF826.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk25OC3DZvJCBsWevqoB1xeneRWt_axV-dImC56DzWdfJhYefNI1YCj7eliFY3pKHp8LkgdQD9XJvSSFpnkqBTWzsGp8DXf5E1OpPJ81VcGD08msVJIRwFh6I2nw9Nm8pjLfsskyXZxUcRqo-vbe2zDiwRvdLco_v-B6Jk6u0zbRskmFQzsIGi63Ijgg0/w266-h400/0AD1B31E-7D6A-4741-AC07-72C406DAF826.jpeg" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Molly Brodak</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp has-dropcap" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Molly stood, her platinum hair hanging down. Before she took her own life, I had sensed something coming: a disturbance in her social media posts. She was shaking with what was happening, like animals before the earthquake. Some people are plugged into the circuit that way. They are not mad, they are crackling with the charge in the air. Should I mute her? I had wondered, but never did. We knew each other, had known each other, at a time when we were reaching past our fingertips and towards our own names. Before we ever met we were published in the same places. But she had arrived earlier than the rest of us, so it seemed back then. ‘Molly Brodak: Poet and Memoirist of Her Father’s Crimes’, as the <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times</span> would put it in the headline of her obituary. Why are you more likely to be remembered as a memoirist of your father’s crimes than as a poet? Why is it easier to appear on <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Great American Baking Show</span>, as Molly did in 2017, than it is to get people to read your work when you are alive? I had once written a poem for her online magazine about fucking Lumière, the living candelabra from <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beauty and the Beast</span>. The drip of wax. Extinguishing his little candles in me with a hiss.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She would still like a picture of a geode if I posted it, because that’s what she loved too, grains of sugar in the earth. She would like a picture of my cats, and I would like a picture of her chickens, as if they wouldn’t chase each other in the real world. I would like a picture of her and Blake, high on <span class="caps" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LSD</span>and grinning, sitting in the studio audience of a <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr Phil</span> taping. Perhaps we respected each other as people who could not be close to others. She had a Master List of Things I Like and Might Write About:</p><blockquote style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: 1.444em; margin: 20px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 24px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cookies<br style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; outline: none;" />Interesting rocks<br style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; outline: none;" />What’s under the ground</p></blockquote><p class="leftranged lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Most of them, in the end, were crossed out. ‘Everything tastes weird lately,’ she wrote, in one of her final diary entries, ‘like aspirin.’ And then: ‘I swear someone really could save my life right now.’</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr7jlMdxAyw9HDTiUGg-1m-M2pKILfg3gE-B_8QQ8-fO8ots77xtSTqxOpuHNR2Gfw6hP5hrjvnFpe3-xrUvWqvnjU3ljo4hRCRuL3S-JhC4iXoclld7kBRTzZkeAme8nIoSQm120DjBDvin4DnwVYuNO71HBp3OGTzT0GD2OEvza8Q3_qGYI4K9T6acc/s1600/581529B3-05FF-4292-BAB5-847A18CD876E.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr7jlMdxAyw9HDTiUGg-1m-M2pKILfg3gE-B_8QQ8-fO8ots77xtSTqxOpuHNR2Gfw6hP5hrjvnFpe3-xrUvWqvnjU3ljo4hRCRuL3S-JhC4iXoclld7kBRTzZkeAme8nIoSQm120DjBDvin4DnwVYuNO71HBp3OGTzT0GD2OEvza8Q3_qGYI4K9T6acc/w300-h400/581529B3-05FF-4292-BAB5-847A18CD876E.jpeg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="figure-caption" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline; font-family: BentonGothic, arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">Blake Butler knew his wife, Molly Brodak, was “troubled” from the beginning. But the way she planned her suicide shocked and horrified him.</div><span face="BentonGothic, arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; text-align: start;"> </span><div class="figure-credit" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline; font-family: BentonGothic, arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 5px; text-align: start;">(Black Butler)</div></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="leftranged lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My husband, Jason, and I were in the vet’s office when we learned that Molly had died. Seafoam green walls. Our cat Miette was trembling on the steel table between us; she hadn’t been able to keep any food down for days and a chill air seemed to come off her in curves. We thought she was dying and maybe she was. The sentence fell through me, I saw it: ‘My partner Molly Brodak passed away yesterday. I don’t know how else to tell it.’ I lifted my head from my phone. The trembling entered the room more generally. Molly is dead, I said, just as someone knocked on the door.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When we got home, I arranged a piece of coral from Mexico and a crystal egg on the cover of her first poetry book – seafoam green – and took a picture. That seemed to be the only thing I could do. The piece of coral I had picked up because it had the same lax bend in it as a child’s arm; I liked to hold it. I thought Molly would like it too. I sought out the sentence again: ‘My partner Molly Brodak passed away yesterday. I don’t know how else to tell it.’ Blake’s avatar was of him emerging as a sort of wedge from the darkness, with his chin thrust up. I felt a kind of reverberating in a field. I wrote to him, something crazy about how she always seemed to shine silver. I began to see a church in Atlanta, where a funeral would happen, and we were set to make the four-hour drive from Savannah – until all at once I took to my bed, the chill air coming off me in curves now too. Molly had given us her bed to sleep in once when we visited; I climbed in and pulled the covers over me. Her book, where the arrangement rested, was called <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Little Middle of the Night</span>.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I do not know why she was so present to me in the days and weeks of illness that followed. Because I was sick, I thought maybe she was sick too. Everything tastes like aspirin. In my dreams we were sitting at 24-hour diners with plates of French fries between us, and mirrors along the walls. I was talking to Blake about Nabokov – telling him to read <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ada</span>, instead of the one I really loved, <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pnin</span>, with its almost-cracking of the beautiful glass bowl. The only other person who appeared to me at this time was my niece, Lena, who came to me as a large, velvet, electric blue-black stingray, slowly waving at me the word <span class="caps" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HELLO</span>. After that I never felt her again, not in my arms. It was like a line of gasoline went up and was gone.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Over the next two years I experienced strange spasms of writing about Molly, which never came to anything. Often I would be seized by her before storms, as if she were a positive charge high up in the atmosphere, while I remained negatively charged below. Pages and pages in some strange scarlet pen – almost unreadable later – about colour and light and uprightness. Boatneck shirts. The upstairs room – had it been at <span class="caps" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AWP</span>? – where she cracked open to reveal the amethysts of college basketball stats. You do walk through the world with some people. You don’t know anything about them, but you walk through the world; if they die, you do not get used to it. She was tied to a time of such ineluctable striving. Her list of books she hated – I liked them all.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Towards the beginning of <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Molly</span>, Blake writes: ‘Even the most basic facts, as Molly once described them, “are easy to say; I say them all the time. They leave me out.”’ He goes on to list them:</p><blockquote style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: 1.444em; margin: 20px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 24px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">– Born in Rochester, Michigan on 29 March 1980.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">– Parents divorced twice; father kept a secret family and went to prison twice for robbing banks.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">– Married her first husband, Matthew Porter, 17 May 2008. Later divorced.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">– Won the 2010 Iowa Poetry Prize for her grad thesis, <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Little Middle of the Night.</span></p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">– Published <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bandit: A Daughter’s Memoir</span> with Grove Atlantic (2016).</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">– Married me 11 May 2017.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">– Founded her own baking business, Kookie House Cakes and Treats.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">– Took her own life in Atlanta, Georgia on 8 March 2020.</p></blockquote><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I read an early draft of <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bandit</span>, Molly’s account of growing up as the daughter of a bank robber, back when writers were being forced to get pre-blurbs before a book could even be submitted. I was working on my own memoir, <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Priestdaddy</span>, at the same time. The indignity of Molly having to request a pre-blurb stays with me. I think it embarrassed us both, as did the actual act of writing about our families, which we considered separate from the real work: poetry. It was easy to see why she had asked – we both had that special ‘my dad is a psycho’ glow. But where I had inherited pure indiscretion, she had inherited the secret life. If you have been born into a secret life maybe you will always have one. It is like having the wardrobe you can walk all the way through, parting layers with your hands until you are unencumbered, free. Stolen clothes. Getaway cars, police sirens. It’s so much <span class="caps" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WORK</span> to have a secret life. But work is what she loved.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are kinds of neglect that cannot be made up for later. I see Molly alone in her yellow bathing suit in Cancún, where her father had taken her on one of his sprees. Wearing ‘the only hat I owned as a child, a black-and-neon tropical print baseball hat I am certain came from a Wendy’s Kids’ Meal’. There are summers that press their thumbprints in us hard – read the last poem that Molly wrote, ‘Camp’, about the Amish farm in Pennsylvania where she was sent when she was eleven. And there are lies that bond more strongly than love. Molly’s mother told her they were her father’s secret family when she was about fourteen and he was already in prison.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘I hold out hope that he will drop his,’ Molly wrote of her father’s ‘deceptive masks’. ‘I wouldn’t still be thinking about him if I didn’t believe there was something true under his lies.’ Throughout <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bandit</span> there is the tenderest, wildest hope that what her father has done has not made him untouchable, not to her, not to us – that a person cannot travel beyond the pale. She visits him in jail, still hoping, buys him jalapeño cheese curls from the commissary. She knows that thinking about her father will not solve him. But there is still a holy discipline in thinking. It is part of our work here. ‘I believe the truth about her father died with her,’ Blake wrote in an essay published nine months after her death. The truth under his lies was the fact of him, which Molly kept close to her and never turned away from. From <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bandit</span>:</p><blockquote style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: 1.444em; margin: 20px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 24px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I see you, Dad.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You think no one can see you, as if the lights on you are out.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You know, you’re not wrong: the lights are out on all of us. We go on in our dark fogs. Unless someone else turns to look your way and lights the light.</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPC3NHUjPrF54F-4IrMjlceN6i3_FyayKiooMqeb0CEifeO9qT0mIMDtdOwAuhJQMcZTK5HvQss40JVHvir8_MZCZN6aGp_VrYXV1dqbcMGKnu-EJI8pMskiEKrPLX2fOt_aX82oZmXUdGP8ZyDQVBp8yUT18vdSglD3roZpd5NCNVl9cj0P8AypVXiY0/s804/E8BB02B6-F5F3-4688-8F24-803570041474.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPC3NHUjPrF54F-4IrMjlceN6i3_FyayKiooMqeb0CEifeO9qT0mIMDtdOwAuhJQMcZTK5HvQss40JVHvir8_MZCZN6aGp_VrYXV1dqbcMGKnu-EJI8pMskiEKrPLX2fOt_aX82oZmXUdGP8ZyDQVBp8yUT18vdSglD3roZpd5NCNVl9cj0P8AypVXiY0/w299-h400/E8BB02B6-F5F3-4688-8F24-803570041474.jpeg" width="299" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Molly Brodak</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <p></p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp has-dropcap" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="dropcaps dropcap--t" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 95px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; height: 60px; letter-spacing: -2px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px !important; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 26px 8px 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">T</span><span class="smallcapslede smallcapslede-spaced lrb-t-cac" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hree years</span> after Molly died, I had a galley of Blake’s memoir in my hand. Should I have? I had no real idea of what it might contain, and no longer had any sense of tawdriness connected with death. (‘I can’t believe they had an open casket,’ my aunt had said at my niece’s funeral, as if it could be a burden on us to see her.) The reading was like falling, into a level that hovered just below my bed. A horizontal experience. Into the secret life that was Molly’s. I was supposed to be writing something about the book, but everything sounded mad: a document you might find in someone’s papers after their death. I only am escaped alone to tell thee. The book begins at the end of language, someone at a bombsite or in a burned-out church, the words and phrases jarred out of their places, as if they too had heard the gunshot and started running; as if the ripples of the act, the derangement in the air, had entered into English itself. Or Blake’s breath, running to find her in the field, past the grown-together pair of trees Molly said might be them in their old age. That is the way that it is. Why should words be available when he has for so long stored them in her?</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Don’t go down there to see it,’ she told Blake, in the note that she taped over the spyhole of their door, but she must have known he would. ‘Please make art for me,’ she told him, too. ‘I will read it all.’</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The unutterable clears when Blake begins to describe Molly alive. We leave the field where she took her own life, but I still see it, hovering in my mind next to her old apartment. In my notebook, I followed along, picking up things here and there. That was like her, I would think, and that, and that. Her exacting standards. ‘She’d get super pissed when I’d say I didn’t believe we landed on the moon, for instance, no matter how obviously I was only kidding.’ Or the description of her tender poise, which seemed to be located at the base of her neck. It is weird to have such a strong sense of Molly’s body still, somewhere in Atlanta like a peach tree.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What was the first time? I asked Jason. The beginning of what I think of as the mega-night, racing forward like a vehicle, lined with neon like a chrome diner. ‘That was when she invited you to read at Emory, and you had been throwing up clams the whole previous night, and we had driven up from Tallahassee with you throwing up clams at the rest stops, and that girl in her department wrote a really mean anonymous review afterwards that talked about your insanely red eyes.’ Ah. This was in the days of alt-lit, in the days when we were full of what the writer Gert Hofmann called ‘book courage’<span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span> and people got paid in copies and were glad, and they wouldn’t find out terrible things about each other till later.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘<span class="caps" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">OK</span>, and the next night,’ I asked, ‘and the next?’ When did I read at the art gallery in front of the domestic violence exhibit? When did we eat pizza in Druid Hills? When did they drink with us downstairs at the sex hotel with jungle robes, with the window in the shower that looked out across the bed? When was the night <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">you</span> spoke to Molly? ‘<span class="caps" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">OK</span>,’ he says – I store things in him – ‘that was at the bar, where you and Blake were playing darts, and you hit a perfect bullseye and both of you were bouncing off the walls, going crazy. And I was sitting at the table with Molly and she was telling me about everything, her brain tumour, how she feared she was old. Molly, I said, I think we’re the same age. She looked back at you and Blake with some anxiety, maybe feeling left out, or trying to sense if there was some line between you, then decided it was <span class="caps" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">OK</span>.’ ‘And then after that she would sometimes give you a look of amusement,’ the same one, I think, she gave Blake when we went to the Clermont Lounge and he fell into a private rapture with one of the strippers, tilting his head up to her and lifting his drink to his mouth. Maybe Molly wanted to bounce off the walls herself, but she remained in her tender poise, her braced posture. You can collect wildflower specimens, learn everything there is to know about alluvial flood plains, write poetry; but you cannot break out of the body that your history, your family – your father – give you. And maybe that place where you learn those things is the real secret life, where you collect your real self, piece by piece. ‘Maybe she had good reason,’ Jason said. ‘I thought that she was troubled, that something was wrong.’</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘She could lay for hours,’ Blake recalls in <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Molly</span>, ‘typing surrounded by books and snacks and pillows with the lights off. I never understood how she could write that way until after she was gone and I no longer had the will to sit up straight.’ The cover of the book is a picture of Molly posing in a pale dress behind a glass-paned door. The view is from the bed, a view from her own <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">best mind</span>, propped up on the pillows. If she put someone else there, could they really see her? Working in bed is like floating in water, descending through clear crystal planes; maybe the body feels itself to be in a rectangle and somehow translates that to paper. She had been headless, she wrote in <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bandit</span>, after surgery for a brain tumour in her early twenties, when her original self might have wanted to be bodiless. Still, ‘I felt the inert power in objecthood, headlessness,’ she says. ‘It is hard to explain to anyone who hasn’t been headless. It’s quite freeing. My legs had voices. No: my calves, my ankles, my thighs, my feet all had voices. I lived in them. I saw the world out of my ankles. What does the world look like out of one’s ankles? It looks a little better, honestly.’</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She did worry, later, that the tumour was coming back. She slid an <span class="caps" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MRI</span> of her brain across the table to him, the first time she and Blake met – after he picked her up, for somewhat unclear reasons, from jail. ‘For family history I said <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">none</span>/and she wrote <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">neon,</span>’ she wrote in a poem about the surgery called ‘Ought’.</p><blockquote class="verse" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: 1.444em; margin: 20px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 24px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The tumour is slow –<br style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; outline: none;" />many millimetres, scallop-edged! Imagine: some people</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">do not want to live.</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgan3hBYKEcQtceOgyp5nODw_FOmBqNkUYHICJ1hZJLPr1E5q0bbZcNMaJ9kkNFaoTy186Y2pZK9cNc-EFtij2ZUO38OVtuB8D1-kY2wXIuCMys3PbD5YFyBonmCCdr8yTOCdScillWLHYSSEAhhXDVfbwBlxEgE9Vc0Xhp4fKcIHqHUXcNhS5RjOWcjTU/s1024/6E4B8954-7BDA-4A09-907F-B946C984CC03.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgan3hBYKEcQtceOgyp5nODw_FOmBqNkUYHICJ1hZJLPr1E5q0bbZcNMaJ9kkNFaoTy186Y2pZK9cNc-EFtij2ZUO38OVtuB8D1-kY2wXIuCMys3PbD5YFyBonmCCdr8yTOCdScillWLHYSSEAhhXDVfbwBlxEgE9Vc0Xhp4fKcIHqHUXcNhS5RjOWcjTU/w300-h400/6E4B8954-7BDA-4A09-907F-B946C984CC03.jpeg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Molly Brodak and Blake Butler</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <p></p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp has-dropcap" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="dropcaps dropcap--w" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 95px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; height: 60px; letter-spacing: -2px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px !important; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 26px 8px 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">W</span><span class="smallcapslede smallcapslede-spaced lrb-t-cac" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ho assigns</span> our lots? What randomiser in the universe, what roll inside the cells? ‘One afternoon, from what seemed out of nowhere,’ Blake writes, ‘Molly offered me a gift – a tiny, battered pale blue on dark blue patterned Avon box with a gold bottom and two textured stickers of fluffy cats with long whiskers stuck to the lid. Inside, a tuft of stuffing on which sat two ivory dice small as the tip of a pinkie.’ She had carried it around since she was a child and wanted him to have it:</p><blockquote style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: 1.444em; margin: 20px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 24px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It felt like being let into a dim grey room with many doors, behind most of which I still had no idea besides the smallest sounds that might leak through – a hum of bees, maybe; the silent glint of sunlight against some sea; the low, slow beating of a heart; a little signal sent from somewhere secret laced inside her, just a girl. Sometimes when I’m uncertain what to do, I take the dice out and roll them, read the numbers. Just now: two, one.</p></blockquote><p class="leftranged lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The dice – we will need them – are a place past meaning. Roll them, but like Molly, they are a living spout of recombination; you will never come to the end.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The thing that seemed most like her, somehow, was J’zargo from the video game Skyrim. Blake describes him in the book:</p><blockquote style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: 1.444em; margin: 20px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 24px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">J’zargo, a feline-like sidekick character that would follow her own character around, doing her bidding, became her favourite part about the game. She loved to dress him up in magic armour, give him the best weapons. ‘J’zargo only has so much room to carry things,’ he’d repeat, when she tried to load him up too much; a line I’d borrow from him as a joke. If J’zargo died in combat, she’d wail and reset the game, go back to the last saved file he was alive in. She’d align his stance so he would stare out through the screen into her eyes. Her <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">husband</span>, she would call him, despite being formally married to another more man-like character in a hometown part of the game.</p></blockquote><p class="leftranged lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I can picture J’zargo perfectly because this is what Jason was doing when both of us were delirious: I was dreaming of Molly, he was building elaborate cat characters in Skyrim.</p><blockquote style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: 1.444em; margin: 20px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 24px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One afternoon, she decided she’d played the game for the last time. She led J’zargo to a river, at digital twilight, and took back all the objects she’d equipped him with, one by one. Using the menu for dialogue between them, she told him she no longer required his services, so he should leave, and following the software, he complied. She stood at the river for a while then openly weeping, strangely touched, if also laughing at herself for getting so worked up. She asked me not to speak, and then to leave the room. She never played the game again from that day forth.</p></blockquote><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gradually the things I read in <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Molly</span> seemed less and less like her. Fistfights, possibly fabricated gunmen. The shape of her face changing as she says: ‘This is a perfect example of why I say you have little respect for me<span class="ellipsis" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><nobr style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums !important; outline: none;"> <span class="ellipsis-dot" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums !important; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 2px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span><span class="ellipsis-dot" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums !important; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 2px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span><span class="ellipsis-dot" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums !important; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 2px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></nobr></span>’ When I read this, I think, it’s someone else saying that, some other voice. Blake calls it Other Molly at the same time as I think Not Molly<span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span> The image of her after his mother’s funeral, wordlessly decorating cookies, someone’s kindness port malfunctioning. Yet directing everyone, at the funeral itself, to go see his mother’s quilts. It was ‘the kind of tribute she would never have offered elsewhere, if only under the light of the one thing she continuously revered: <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">work</span>’.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘The world does not yet exist which would have suited her energies,’ I wrote in my notebook. ‘As a thief I wasn’t wasted,’ she almost seems to respond, in a poem called ‘Post Glacier’. ‘As a cheat I wasn’t wasted. As a liar I was wasted least of all.’</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I had to stop here, surrounded by her on all sides, so to distract myself I picked up <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Surrender</span>, an anal sex memoir by the ballerina Toni Bentley. I have no explanation for any part of this. But just as I had gone too far into the apartment with Molly, into the green of her coat and the icing on her cupcakes, so I went into the weird plush sanctum where the ballerina was having anal sex. Red pillows, living candelabras, the hiss and drip of wax. Mostly what I remember interacting with was Molly’s sense of humour – dark, twisted, dry – and her surprises. Jokes (crossed out) were on her list of things she could write about. Well, let <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anallerina</span> be one of them too.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpEnWE7Viz3ShXp0YqUQ9XET-9S2Z9jBnWAwdmS-sB8wP07TPQHjSjSakrAa5U6CsErHCif_u_9hlsM15b4bNdKbqZeGv-idqeUxyj601-pIXCUqhJToQ6RGlivvjZqwposk25YFp7WrJFiiS9F7Yp-Gx9vRAM6CcHfzOqRMwAfPd1bFOLreHPO48WEwg/s1024/DD24755B-FED2-4E76-ADFF-714B0381C724.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="683" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpEnWE7Viz3ShXp0YqUQ9XET-9S2Z9jBnWAwdmS-sB8wP07TPQHjSjSakrAa5U6CsErHCif_u_9hlsM15b4bNdKbqZeGv-idqeUxyj601-pIXCUqhJToQ6RGlivvjZqwposk25YFp7WrJFiiS9F7Yp-Gx9vRAM6CcHfzOqRMwAfPd1bFOLreHPO48WEwg/w266-h400/DD24755B-FED2-4E76-ADFF-714B0381C724.jpeg" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Molly Brodak and Blake Butler</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp has-dropcap" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="dropcaps dropcap--w" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 95px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; height: 60px; letter-spacing: -2px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px !important; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 26px 8px 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">W</span><span class="smallcapslede smallcapslede-spaced lrb-t-cac" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hen</span> I began reading <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Molly</span> again in the morning, something was wrong. The rest of the book flashed out in phrases, Blake’s and Molly’s, mixed together:</p><blockquote style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: 1.444em; margin: 20px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 24px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I belong unassembled.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Images of planets from the right distance, this one too.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No matter what you say or do, we skulls will see you underground.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why don’t more people care who their loved ones really are? Why should it take a death to know a life?</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A fling with a student she’d hooked up with a couple weeks after our wedding.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not only one student, but several, some over spans of years.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I logged out of her accounts, closed her computer.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Should I be allowed to make this said?</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She could only keep the window open for so long, she said.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Good job with the demon. Instant one stuff.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Please show me your new face.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There’s nothing after death, and I will see you there.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I will read it all.</p></blockquote><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Should I be allowed to make this said? Holes in our phones go down oddly deep, maybe for everyone. We are leading strange visual lives in labyrinths underground. Whether to leave the world is one question; what to leave behind is another. Molly, more than anyone else, understood there would be a book called <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Molly</span>; what did she want that book to contain? ‘I know a liar wants to be known,’ she had written in <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bandit</span>. ‘I know a criminal wants to be caught, because it is the only way of being known. I think a person who feels mortality sidling up wants to be known.’</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq5MuQ3ZHQNWdjUmJsb7jEd6sk9dYhWsBifniDOA3I8ELi4qg26Y90UXahh1IP8ujSvKkJza7hdOV_d5tnrhxuaArMB5bORO4hhQa6Q82ZOP-L7VIzItkoFrML6cd3CUG9k3keKelONE9Ka4NnNUq2l9tH5ojczfs9w-jUrNMz2cIimtCFc4vHVN-3mRQ/s1600/98A0F313-D9F0-4FB0-9E1B-5F57D2E5BEC9.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq5MuQ3ZHQNWdjUmJsb7jEd6sk9dYhWsBifniDOA3I8ELi4qg26Y90UXahh1IP8ujSvKkJza7hdOV_d5tnrhxuaArMB5bORO4hhQa6Q82ZOP-L7VIzItkoFrML6cd3CUG9k3keKelONE9Ka4NnNUq2l9tH5ojczfs9w-jUrNMz2cIimtCFc4vHVN-3mRQ/w300-h400/98A0F313-D9F0-4FB0-9E1B-5F57D2E5BEC9.webp" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="figure-caption" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline; font-family: BentonGothic, arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">Blake Butler and Molly Brodak. Butler’s memoir, “Molly,” begins by recounting Brodak’s suicide and widens to an indelible portrait of their relationship.</div><span face="BentonGothic, arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; text-align: start;"> </span><div class="figure-credit" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline; font-family: BentonGothic, arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 5px; text-align: start;">(Molly Brodak)</div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The night I finished Blake’s memoir, I was afraid of her – you didn’t really do that, Molly? – and of what she had done, what she had hidden. Of Other Molly, of Not Molly, unscrolling her long life like a nightgown. I saw her students; my heart had stopped at that paragraph. You didn’t really do that? The next night the Molly of the Zone came to me, and I was not afraid any more.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘It wasn’t just her bed,’ Jason said. ‘She left us the whole apartment, we fed and watered the cat. I felt Beans walking over me in the middle of the night.’ Then I do, I do remember. The whole place, so supposedly full of secrets, left open to us to find anything – though all I would ever have looked at were the bookshelves. ‘You don’t remember her kitchen, with the cubbies of mismatched dishes?’</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s not a great claim, to have slept in someone’s bed. To spend a long mega-night with them, and then forget to think of them when they are not in immediate view. People did not die for me, not till lately, they just went out of town. All my ex-grandmothers living next to one another, exchanging cookie recipes, and me with no need to weep – but then I saw it, it really happened. The presences, not absences, entered the room and stood in a tall ring around, with their collections of hard irreconcilable facts – the ones about them and the ones they loved, jumbled together in cairns. Those two years when I was trying to write about her uprightness, what I was really trying to write about was presence, which has nothing to do with goodness at all. It is the straightness that stands in a room with you and somehow does not fall.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blake’s hundred fingers in the last photo of them, at an art gallery, reflected in a purposely shattered mirror. Her hundred little smiles – he calls them smirks – and a black star in the middle of her neck.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It does not seem we should be able to see Molly there in her field, but these things happen out in the world. He is telling us that. His wish: that we should look upon her face, see even the fly. Hear what he hears in the firework, now. Go into Dante’s dark wood, and experience language as useless, in him. Molly on her back, in her green coat. Blake on his knees, calling for her and his mother. Slapping his face where the bee landed – something just stung me, what the fuck – and why isn’t she there so he can tell her and they can laugh.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘In the end,’ he writes, ‘I don’t know what she owes anybody.’ In the final third of the book, she can appear to him, she can speak to him, because we are in a place far beyond explanation. We are not going to understand, no matter how we stack and restack; no careful arrangement is going to make meaning. ‘No stories work for me,’ Molly wrote in <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bandit</span>. ‘The “story” I have felt these facts through is just a simple and untranslatable darkness. A packed wet powder, dark navy blue, nothing I could fit in a rectangular package and place on a library shelf.’</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The day, as I am writing, is like a crystal without faces. I felt Molly in this book, but a different one: the small allotment of her that I had. The people who surrounded Molly share something, maybe – a hesitance to claim her. If we called ourselves her friends, would she reject that? She sent a few people cookies on the day she died. It was the great uncrossed-out thing; it was what she could do. She might roll her eyes at us; so what? Maybe in the end it is better to make the claim. I knew Molly; I walked with her a little ways.</p><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Will you roll the dice, and change her again? Flash some other combination? That she would continue to appear in the live studio audience of a <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr Phil</span> taping, or standing before one of her cakes. I have wondered why anyone would like baking. I guess it is like the sun, doing something. In her childhood diary, she wrote: ‘I put food out for farries but it is still here today.’</p><blockquote style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: 1.444em; margin: 20px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 24px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><s style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Being in water</s><br style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; outline: none;" /><s style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thinking about how big the universe is<br style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; outline: none;" />Reading other people’s journals</s></p></blockquote><p class="leftranged lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That she might like a picture of your crystals, or your cats; that you might like a picture of her imperial chickens. Now and then I still come across something that seems to belong to her, or that might go on her list of things she could write about. In an Amazon review of <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours</span> (1814), someone called Danielle says: ‘It has helped me make a few colours for my new painting. “Avocado”. Not just yellow and green.’</p><p class="leftranged lrb-t-r lrb-t-mdp" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 19px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">***</p><h1 class="contributor-name lrb-t-ce lrb-t-r" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.11em; margin: 0px 0px 23px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Patricia Lockwood</h1><div class="contributor-bio typogrify lrb-t-t lrb-t-ce" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="bio lrb-autosplit lrb-t-sas" style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Patricia Lockwood is a contributing editor at the <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LRB</span>. Her novel <span style="-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No One Is Talking About This</span> was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and won the Dylan Thomas Prize. 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margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">On March 8 2020, Molly Brodak committed suicide. She was an award-winning poet, memoirist, local entrepreneur and the wife of <a href="http://www.deadendfollies.com/blog/tag/Blake+Butler" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) !important; color: #eb1e25; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none; transition: color 100ms ease-in-out 0s, border-color 100ms ease-in-out 0s;">novelist Blake Butler</a>. But she was also much more than that. Molly was complex, wounded and filled with venomous contradictions that were both hurtful to her and others, like many human beings are. She lived public and secret lives and carried public and secret burdens that weighed so heavy on her shoulders, they eventually got the best of her. <span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjtqWv_9_e5JjloWqwuPonL2OxKk6PO4T6y8rGjx1Dg6YXgJSfKSMFo2vzQRlF51dbGlYNv2wrQRTYNNXBkZ0z6y5X-KKXX0KpyptbnWdoh0zZgt4A6yGROWZ3wB5uWhGCYDOD6bH71f_b6tRFEAkaeIm9c5oNdfIfTEEyE3UxV4p_Pc0Yo0uV9XDbNYE/s630/9480B0EF-36B7-46E3-81C6-338BAD8DF981.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="439" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjtqWv_9_e5JjloWqwuPonL2OxKk6PO4T6y8rGjx1Dg6YXgJSfKSMFo2vzQRlF51dbGlYNv2wrQRTYNNXBkZ0z6y5X-KKXX0KpyptbnWdoh0zZgt4A6yGROWZ3wB5uWhGCYDOD6bH71f_b6tRFEAkaeIm9c5oNdfIfTEEyE3UxV4p_Pc0Yo0uV9XDbNYE/w279-h400/9480B0EF-36B7-46E3-81C6-338BAD8DF981.jpeg" width="279" /></a></div><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Molly</em> is mostly her story. It’s also the story of what it’s like to survive her and what it’s like to survive the suicide of the love of your life. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">This memoir could be broken down in three parts: the day Molly died, their life together and what life is like now that she’s gone. Each builds upon one another to create the portrait of a woman who isn’t a victim, a saint or an abuser, but an uncomfortable and human in-between who Blake Butler loved more than anything in the world. I can’t think of a more generous and loving gesture towards a departed loved one than to grant her immortality through literature. To offer her so completely to the judgment of strangers and yet claim "I loved her through it all."</p><h2 style="color: black; font-family: ltc-bodoni-175; font-size: 26px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.25em; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">How to talk about suffering</strong></h2><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Although the beginning of <em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Molly</em> is terrifying to a point where it could trigger people who lived trauma related to suicide, it’s crucial to Blake Butler’s project of explaining his late wife. It’s crucial to understand how badly she was suffering, because it tainted a lot of her life. Suffering can express itself under the form of self-harm and crying fits, but it can also express itself under the form of self-defeating beliefs and behaviors, all of which undermined the life of Molly Brodak.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">One particularly heartbreaking anecdote in Blake Butler’s memoir recalls Molly winning a poetry prize and immediately collapsing into tears claiming that her win proved that the prize was a sham and that no one valued anything anymore. That anecdote can be used as a prism to understand how Molly Brodak thought of herself. As the antithesis of who and what she dreamed about. Her mere corporeality implied imperfections incompatible with her lofty aesthetic ideals. Disappearing felt to her like getting out of her own way.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">But such compassionate and easily relatable anecdotes were just a part of Molly’s self-destructive behavior. Sometimes she acted out against whatever and whoever made her feel validated, which really is the true face of mental illness. I don’t feel comfortable sharing in what way she did act out on Blake in this review (it’s for the book’s readers to discover), but this is what people undergoing a mental health crisis do. They will go above and beyond in order to validate their negative self-image because this is what feels true. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Molly</em> speaks an unflinching truth with such love and compassion that it blurs every attempt at morality beyond Blake Butler’s own dedication at loving his wife against the most adversarial circumstances. He describes the incredible violence her inner, unspoken desires exerted against their marriage in such painstaking details that they don’t feel evil or justifiable. They just happened. They were the symptoms of a self on fire, perpetually trying to construct an identity it couldn’t (and probably didn’t want) to construct.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">A lot of people are going to judge Blake Butler and Molly Brodak both after reading this, but I find it impossible. Their written story is a tragedy that needed to exist in order to show the true face of the ordinary evils that wreck so many adult lives.</p><h2 style="color: black; font-family: ltc-bodoni-175; font-size: 26px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.25em; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">How to be present</strong></h2><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">This is not your typical Blake Butler book. I’ve been a fan of his for several years now and I could only describe his writing style as on the edge of consciousness. Somewhere between a waking and a hypnagogic state, conjuring demons without shape of form that aren’t normally accessible in our creative vocabulary. <em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Molly</em> is, by far, Butler’s most straightforward and down to Earth book. He looks outward at the person he loved the most instead of inwards at the apocalyptic kaleidoscope inside his head.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">His obstinate resolve not to make the emotional read of any conflictual situation and attempts to deconstruct his own understanding of the world in order to integrate her own makes <em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Molly</em>such a special reading experience. Butler is intellectually, emotionally and spiritually present, or at least he tries to. Maybe he wasn’t as present when his wife was alive, but the way he embroidered her presence in his brain and filters her essence through his in his memoir will make you wish someone loved you as much as Blake loved Molly. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Molly</em> is the most immediate and arresting example of what <a href="http://www.deadendfollies.com/blog/tag/Chuck+Klosterman" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) !important; color: #eb1e25; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none; transition: color 100ms ease-in-out 0s, border-color 100ms ease-in-out 0s;">Chuck Klosterman</a> meant when he said: "Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you." This memoir is both. Art and love.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">What’s so heartbreaking about <em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Molly</em> is that it’s ultimately the autopsy of failures: the failure to raise a daughter, the failure to save a life, the failure of a marriage, the failure of love to solve everything. But what are we doing out there if not fending off our inevitable failure for the longest time possible? Everything is temporary even when it feels immortal and eternal. Blake Butler and Molly Brodak lived the kind of love Leonard Cohen talked about when he sang: "Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin." Warm, life-affirming and yet cruelly ephemeral.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">*</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">I’ve been volunteering at a suicide hotline since November of last year. Molly Brodak is an extreme case of what kind of distress we’re dealing with on the phone, but there are people who suffer in the way she suffered. I believe the hypothesis Blake Butler makes at the start of Molly was right: borderline personality disorder. Also probably depression, which made it even harder to ask for help. You can’t ask for help if you don’t feel worthy of it. Mental Health is complicated and <em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Molly</em> exemplifies how much so.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">I usually give the books I review a rating based on <a href="http://www.deadendfollies.com/blog/dead-end-follies-rating-system-books-movies-albums" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) !important; color: #eb1e25; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none; transition: color 100ms ease-in-out 0s, border-color 100ms ease-in-out 0s;">a 10 points system</a>, but I don’t feel it’s appropriate to judge this story for anything other than what it is. An appropriately heartfelt goodbye to the most important person in someone’s life. It is not my story to deconstruct for imperfections. <em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Molly</em>should be understood, celebrated and remembered as such. It will be officially released on November 21st. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Molly-Blake-Butler/dp/1648230377" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) !important; color: #eb1e25; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none; transition: color 100ms ease-in-out 0s, border-color 100ms ease-in-out 0s;">You can (and should) pre-order it right now</a>. <br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" /> </p><h2 style="color: black; font-family: ltc-bodoni-175; font-size: 26px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.25em; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">10/10</strong></h2><div><strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></strong></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8f8IjhbHnGoqKJ5Jj5nejFkSqArUE4PtTSwpoFfsAyQkhKXRQMtsmZ3-gAtw1iDQHhuLIbhFuIVEuFC8Evmgdl6GDHJq-EjYYmEVBoaghzcBuIp01mq5avRvFkJVOZGFkZYshdftWbjYPFpPGpUOeTndQ_DtgJUGQgemzdUo3MySsNECSeDukNXHPzPQ/s155/8ACA2F39-CDB8-4C70-B3DF-C50881D7A5B6.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 20px; position: relative; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Megan Fernandes’s third collection of poems, <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">I Do Everything I’m Told</em>, injects new life into the love poem. The book skates thrillingly between desire and race and sexuality, her writing smart without ever lecturing. “Letter to a Young Poet,” for instance, feels like taking a meandering walk with one of your most brilliant and curious friends. “To want the same things as you age is not always a failure of growth,” Fernandes writes, delivering a clear stab of wisdom, before dropping into a pair of arresting claims: “A good city will not parent you. Every poet has a love affair with a bridge.” But the collection is at its most confident and vulnerable when Fernandes writes about heartache and desire. In “Drive,” the speaker grasps through the aftermath of a breakup and the cliches it inspires but eventually stumbles upon a profound sense of acceptance: “Contradictions are a sign we are from god. We fall. We don’t always get to ask why.” Fernandes’s poems are aching and sly. 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box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Simon Armitage.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" color="var(--caption-text)" face="GuardianTextSans, "Guardian Text Sans Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-size: 0.875rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;"> </span><span color="var(--caption-text)" face="GuardianTextSans, "Guardian Text Sans Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-size: 0.875rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">Photograph: Gareth Phillips for the Guardian</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;">THE LONG READ</span></div><div><h1 class="dcr-1p51jo0" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 4px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--headline-colour); font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 2.125rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Simon Armitage: Making poetry pay</h1></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;">In a culture that has consigned poetry to the margins, Armitage has become something very rare: a genuinely popular British poet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Aida Edemariam</strong><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>hits the road with the busiest man in verse</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Aida Edemarian</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Tuesday 26 May 2015</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span class="dcr-11l45yn" color="var(--drop-cap)" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 111px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 92px; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: text-top;">O</span>ne Indian summer evening last September, off a busy slip road not far from the Tower of London, <a data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/simonarmitage" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simon Armitage</a> took to the stage of the world’s oldest surviving music hall and, after a short introduction from the broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, started to read. “It begins with a house, an end terrace / in this case …” The hall was full, generous with silence and later with laughter: young couples in careful retro outfits, men in suits dropping by after work, students, and older women; audience and performers held beneath a glowing tent of wobbly fairy lights that rose from the balconies to a bright apex in the roof. “But it will not stop there. Soon it is / an avenue / which cambers arrogantly past the Mechanics’ Institute …” Armitage’s reading voice is light; not exactly monotonal, but strung on a more delicate, questioning skein than his conversational voice. The poem, Zoom!, the title piece in his very first collection, in 1989, turns left at the main road, leads to a town, “city, nation, hemisphere, universe, … [is] bulleted into a neighbouring galaxy”, before finally coming to rest in the checkout queue at the local supermarket.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">How did the poem come about, Bragg asked. Daydreaming, answered Armitage: “I’d been bunking off school – which was a bit of a worthless pastime in those days because it was before daytime TV.” The audience laughed. He spoke of the challenge, these days, of building thinking time into a day. “‘What have you been doing?’ ‘Thinking’” – another murmur of laughter – “It sounds like an excuse, but actually, it’s vital.” It was a deft, confident performance, an unstrained mixture of taking himself and his work seriously while making sure to puncture anything that might come across as pretension; playing with anti-intellectualism while depending on the fact that no one would be here if they were not intellectually engaged. Did he plan his poems? “I know other poets who work on poems as exploration, but I’ve usually got a destination in mind. I knew in that poem I wanted to end up in Sainsbury’s supermarket” – a slight pause, as the audience guffawed – “it was just a question of getting back from the outer periphery of the universe.”</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 1.0625rem;">The laughter was prolonged, and it came from a core of true respect: Armitage is not only a gifted performer, he is also spoken of as the next poet laureate and the most popular British poet since Philip Larkin; this month he threw his hat into the ring as a candidate to become Oxford professor of poetry (sole requirement: “that candidates be of sufficient distinction to be able to fulfil the duties of the post”). Most of all, from the beginning of his career, Armitage has been a leading example of how a poet might impose him or herself on a culture that is increasingly disinclined to reward poetry – and earn a living from doing so.</span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 1.0625rem;">For while poetry might sometimes seem to be everywhere – on underground trains, buildings, Facebook, at spoken-word events; as a piece in Newsweek noted last year, “everything from Chester Zoo to the Great North Run” seems to have its poet-in-residence – this doesn’t tend to translate into actual financial viability. Most first-time collections sell a few hundred copies if their authors are lucky. For most poets, self-promotion and performance these days are imperative in order to gain any readership at all, and Armitage – arguably the consummate poet-professional – has come round to making a virtue of that, even a kind of manifesto: “I used to have a purist view of poetry, that the page was all there was,” he said at the Oxford Union in May. “I don’t think that any more. A poet is the entire package. </span><a data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/poetry" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Poetry</a><span style="font-size: 1.0625rem;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.0625rem;">goes back to the campfire, the theatre, and the temple.”</span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">So, in one typical two-week period last September, Armitage did the following, and more: worked on a dramatised version of the Raft of the Medusa for Radio 4 (broadcast in April and now in development at the National Theatre); worked on a translation of the medieval poem Pearl (now finished); went to an exhibition by someone who is painting his portrait; met musicians with whom he may collaborate on a spoken-word project; appeared on Radio 3; led a poetry writing workshop at the Wakefield literary festival; had meetings at the Liverpool Everyman theatre to discuss a dramatisation of The Odyssey (it will transfer to Shakespeare’s Globe in London in November); did interviews about a film he had made for the Culture Show; met his new students (he is professor of creative writing at Sheffield); wrote notes for one poem, began another, finished yet another; and did a reading, with the poet Jamie McKendrick, in Modena, Italy. Poetry has taken him to the Amazon and to Iceland, to the US and to New Zealand, on to helicopters, trawlers, trains; to prisons and to residencies at Eton, to conference halls filled with up to 2,500 GCSE students (his poems are on the syllabus). Armitage now has an agent who manages the performing side of his life; he estimates he says yes to about 50% of requests.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><aside class="dcr-1jdqcld" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 3px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--pullquote-text); font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.5rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.15; margin: 14px 0px; max-width: 80%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><svg class="dcr-scql1j" style="fill: var(--pullquote-icon);" viewbox="0 0 22 14"><path d="M5.255 0h4.75c-.572 4.53-1.077 8.972-1.297 13.941H0C.792 9.104 2.44 4.53 5.255 0Zm11.061 0H21c-.506 4.53-1.077 8.972-1.297 13.941h-8.686c.902-4.837 2.485-9.411 5.3-13.941Z"></path></svg><blockquote class="dcr-zzndwp" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Poetry has taken Armitage to the Amazon and Iceland, to the US and New Zealand, to prisons and to Eton</blockquote></aside><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Over nine months, I accompanied him to some of these events, and began to see exactly how such a significant presence has to be shaped and managed – and to realise that, in this regard, Armitage has a mastery developed over decades of give and take between what has been demanded of him and what he chooses to offer. In West Yorkshire, where he grew up, I did not suggest an itinerary – he did. When we climbed to the top of Pule Hill, I knew he had been there with journalists before, also tracing the lineaments of his poems and life: “We are making a film,” he wrote in <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/apr/13/biography.simonarmitage" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gig, his engaging memoir</a> of a lifelong relationship with popular music, about taking a BBC camera crew up there. “Each region has been asked to profile one of its artists. I am THE NORTH.” Production HQ for the film, he wrote, was his parents’ house; they re-enacted one of his poems, setting a tyre in freefall down the hill. His description of the process was as gentle and blokey, self-mocking and sincere as he often is in person.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">But it also smuggled in a very controlled picture of how he wants to be seen. “I am THE NORTH” laughs at the reductiveness of the media – but does not deny it, in part because it is true; he is from the north and proud to be so. Indeed, being “the north” is an aspect of an artistic modus operandi that has over the years proved quite useful – as differentiation from other poets, as a grounding, authenticating narrative of class and language. During our walks, and before and after various events to which I accompanied him, Armitage almost always gave generous and direct answers to my many questions. But I was also – unintentionally, I think – given a masterclass in brand management, all the more skilful because, while not necessarily always reflective of the distance he has travelled from his roots, it does not feel fake. Nor does it obscure Armitage’s unapologetic belief in the importance of poetry, his willingness to advocate for it, and his adamantine sense of vocation.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Along the way, I met many critics who thought none of this could replace high seriousness: popularity (in a post-Pound, post-Eliot era full of prickly moralising about the virtues of being ignored) was simply assumed to be incommensurate with quality or greatness. There was an overriding sense, as Ian Gregson, a poet and author of a book-length study of Armitage put it, that “I can understand it, so it must be crap”. Back on stage in London, Bragg took the issue head on. Was Armitage aware of the criticism? “I became more and more aware as people pointed it out to me in reviews.” A general laugh. “I suppose what I’ve come to think is, it’s fine. It’s a broad church. I’ve got a lot of respect for people who write obscure avant-garde poetry, but it’s not the poetry I want to write.”</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">“He’s not at all simplistic,” said Gregson. “He’s actually trying – and this to me is the ideal – to take on the most difficult, complex things possible but to deal with them as accessibly as he can.” The poet Glyn Maxwell, who travelled with Armitage through Iceland, retracing the route taken by WH Auden in 1936 for their book <a data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v19/n06/ian-sansom/all-the-cultural-bases" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Moon Country</a> (1996), put the criticism down to simple envy. “It’s the cheapest way to treat someone who’s flown quite high.”</p></div><div><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">So high, in fact, that when I asked if he could actually make a living from poetry, Armitage answered, “everything I do stems from the fact that I am a poet. But if I sheared away the prose and teaching and drama? Yeah, I would still get by.” According to figures published late last year by the magazine Mslexia, Simon Armitage was the tenth best-selling poet in the UK in 2013. Those 10 poets, however, included Dante, Homer, Seamus Heaney and Philip Larkin; among living poets, Armitage came third, behind the current poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, and Pam Ayres.</p><hr class="dcr-z9ge1j" style="background-color: gainsboro; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 48px; width: 150px;" /><figure class="dcr-5h0uf4" data-spacefinder-role="showcase" data-spacefinder-type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement" id="528657b0-fd11-4c17-83a4-7e17d0f72163" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; 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vertical-align: baseline;">Part of the 47-mile Stanza Stone trail in the south Pennines, which features poems by Simon Armitage carved into the rock by Pip Hall.</span> Photograph: Christopher Thomond for The Guardian</figcaption></figure><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A week before the east London gig</strong>, we had met at Marsden station, a small stop tucked into the foothills of the Pennines, and drove through the village and out, round bend after bend, via Slaithwaite and Greetland, up to the top of the Pennine watershed. Armitage parked the car, and we stepped into a day of muted silvers: Blackstone Edge reservoir, pylons, a whited-out sky. Armitage, a tall man, walks as he speaks – unhurried, purposeful, with an unselfconscious physical confidence undented (or maybe underscored) by a period in his 20s when, diagnosed with an arthritic condition called ankylosing spondilitis, he thought he might soon not be able to walk at all. But it went into remission and these days he can walk for miles. In 2012, he published Writing Home, an account of an attempt to walk the Pennine Way backwards, from Kirk Yetholm to Marsden, where he was born, paying his way by reading poetry every night; Walking Away, in which he does the same, but from Minehead in Somerset to Land’s End, will be published on 4 June. It is the fourth, and, he says, the last in a series of wry memoirs (the others are Gig and <a data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201703.All_Points_North" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All Points North</a>) that achieve a distillation of what he ventures in his between‑poem patter at readings: open-seeming self-revelation, meditations on music and landscape and writing, about the meaning of various kinds of home.</p></div><div><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">In Gig, he described the tightrope walked by the touring poet: “A single human voice speaking a considered thought can feel like the high point of human achievement, or ... an object lesson in embarrassment.” Fame and achievement alter the balance, but not entirely; every move towards the mic still holds – as it should – an element of risk. “We’re all doing that, aren’t we?” Armitage said. “Every poet who ever stepped on to a stage or made some mark on a piece of paper is testing their reputation in some way. I have got to a point in my life and my career where I’ve stopped having to feel apologetic about what I do and why I do it. And actually I hear those noises coming from a lot of younger writers now. They don’t want to apologise. They want to get it out there and they want to be recognised and they want [poetry] to have a place in people’s lives and on their bookshelves and in their ears.”</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">From up here, on a good day, it is possible to see the Welsh mountains and Jodrell Bank telescope; Bolton and the beginnings of the Lake District; Littleborough, and Rochdale, where Armitage once worked as a probation officer. It would be glib to say this period is the reason for the undertow of darkness in his work, but it must have made its mark. Accidental death, affectless murder, suicide and loss stalk his early poems. He is drawn, in an increasingly prominent sideline of reimagined Greek dramas and medieval translations, to stories that face male violence head on. So Mister Heracles (After Euripides) features a viscerally detailed account of Heracles killing his family for the supposed greater good of the “mother state”; in Homer’s Odyssey, Armitage lingers over Cyclops’s bursting eyeball; <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/may/14/the-last-days-of-troy-simon-armitage-review" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Last Days of Troy</a> (produced at the Globe with supermodel Lily Cole as Helen last June) ends in an orgy of violence all the more shocking because it is so deliberately emptied of heroic justification. Armitage left the probation service after he had published four poetry collections and began to think he just might be able to make it as a poet. A surprisingly enlightened Home Office kept his job open for a year in case he foundered and wanted to come back. He never needed to, doing immediately as well, and better, than most poets could dream of – but the freelancer’s fear is not easily shaken. “I’ve only just got used to saying ‘No’,” said Armitage, “and I still don’t say it with much confidence. I don’t think people believe me, anyway.”</p><aside class="dcr-1jdqcld" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 3px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--pullquote-text); font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.5rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.15; margin: 14px 0px; max-width: 80%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><svg class="dcr-scql1j" style="fill: var(--pullquote-icon);" viewbox="0 0 22 14"><path d="M5.255 0h4.75c-.572 4.53-1.077 8.972-1.297 13.941H0C.792 9.104 2.44 4.53 5.255 0Zm11.061 0H21c-.506 4.53-1.077 8.972-1.297 13.941h-8.686c.902-4.837 2.485-9.411 5.3-13.941Z"></path></svg><blockquote class="dcr-zzndwp" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have got to a point in my life career where I’ve stopped having to feel apologetic about what I do and why I do it</blockquote><footer style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Simon Armitage</cite></footer></aside><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Last autumn, Faber published Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014, a record of a 25-year career as a poet. “Normally when books come out I hardly take any notice of them,” he said. “I flick through to make sure they haven’t been printed upside down. But I always feel I want to move on or I have moved on and that’s been an issue for me – I haven’t really had time to enjoy a lot of things I’ve done.” But when this relatively slim volume arrived, he sat down with it on the end of the bed and stared at it for half an hour, reflecting, he said, on how the early poems in particular seemed “vivid and young, free and easygoing. Most of those original poems were written out of a desire to write rather than any notion they’d find their way into a book. I don’t think you can ever get that back.” They reminded him of an early life – as probation officer, as a homesick Portsmouth geography student who fled back to Marsden as soon as he was able – “that seems unrecognisable to me now”. As for the whole thing: “I think I felt pride, I don’t know if you are allowed to feel those things any more about your own work, but I did, I felt it was an accomplishment. So, yeah, I had a little moment” – he gave the phrase a camp, self-deflating turn, then laughed slightly. “But I’ve moved on now.”</p></div><div><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Up ahead, on a bend in the path, our destination appeared – an outcrop of Yorkshire gritstone so exposed to wind and rain whipping in off the Irish Sea that it has been chiselled into receding striations. At the base there is a flat section, with his rust-red words cut directly into the rock: “Be glad of these freshwater tears / each pearled droplet some salty old sea-bullet / air-lifted out of the waves.” The underlying colour of the rock was a surprise. “The first day I came up here after they carved it,” said Armitage, “it was really pissing it down. It was still quite raw, and it looked as if it was dripping fire.” There are six of these Stanza Stones along 40-odd miles of the Pennines, commissioned by the Ilkley literature festival as part of the Cultural Olympiad in 2012: an Armitage poem about manifestations of water (Snow, Rain, Mist, Dew, Puddle, Beck) is carved into each one. This stone, Rain, is the only one it is possible to happen upon accidentally; the presence of the poet is an occasional bonus. Two cyclists approached, swept past. “There you go. Oblivious. I think they actually accelerated.” Then a scraggle of chattering ramblers. We both waited – he, it seemed to me (although I could have been wrong) nonchalantly pretending he wasn’t – for at least one of them to stop, to recognise him, even. A couple glanced over, but they all kept walking. A short silence. “I’m sure they know it word for word.”</p><figure class="dcr-5h0uf4" data-spacefinder-role="showcase" data-spacefinder-type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement" id="bacb0ea9-3055-4540-aefa-3ef81034b9ac" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 12px 0px 12px -240px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dcr-1t8m8f2" id="img-3" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; 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line-height: 18.9px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;"><span class="dcr-1inf02i" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; fill: var(--caption-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1em;"><svg height="13" viewbox="0 0 18 13" width="18"><path d="M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z"></path></svg></span><span class="dcr-1qvd3m6" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Rain Stone at Cow’s Mouth Quarry on the Pennine Way.</span> Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian</figcaption></figure><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The second stone he took me to was quite different. Armitage parked along an exposed section of the A62 and we struck immediately, steeply upwards, on to the lower slopes of Pule Hill and a grassy track that led to an abandoned quarry. Many of the rocks here are shaped by man rather than the elements, into flat, near-black expanses, and, when we turned a corner at the top, into standing stones. It’s a chill place, a reminder of an old England of magic and tribal rites, the England Armitage accesses in poems such as Five Eleven Ninety Nine, where a present-day group of men feed and feed and feed a night-time bonfire until there is almost nothing left in the village. “It does feel like there is something malevolent and almost occult about it,” said Armitage, who used to come up here as a boy, even though it terrified him. His poem Snow is tucked into a crevice, lichen already reclaiming the letters.</p></div><div><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Far below us the traffic roared; beyond the road the moors climbed into the sky. In All Points North, Armitage is clear about the importance of this landscape to his imagination. “I think I was aware you always had a choice,” he said. “You can get in the car and turn left into Huddersfield or Leeds or Sheffield, but you can turn the other way and you are not going to meet anybody all day and you can invent what those places mean. They are a kind of canvas or a blank page. Space beyond space and space after that as well, right up to the Cheviots and through Scotland.” All Points North was also his attempt to characterise – rather than define – the north, “where England tucks its shirt into its underpants”. When Armitage published it, in 1998, “there was a new confidence. A real sea change that had taken [the north] from the Roy Hattersley flat cap and whippets version to whatever it was I was describing, which is normality for me.” By the time he wrote Walking Home, 14 years later, it was “the height of the recession and so that was against the backdrop of communities really struggling to keep it together”. Perhaps the only constant, he said, is the growing economic gap between there and London.</p><figure class="dcr-5h0uf4" data-spacefinder-role="showcase" data-spacefinder-type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement" id="ec4fb922-70d7-48f3-acfc-5b691b5e0f17" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 12px 0px 12px -240px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dcr-1t8m8f2" id="img-4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; 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line-height: 18.9px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;"><span class="dcr-1inf02i" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; fill: var(--caption-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1em;"><svg height="13" viewbox="0 0 18 13" width="18"><path d="M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z"></path></svg></span><span class="dcr-1qvd3m6" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Snow Stone is tucked into a crevice, lichen already reclaiming the letters.</span> Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian</figcaption></figure><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">And, for him, the cultural backdrop. In Gig he describes standing on West Nab, a point on the Pennine watershed six miles from Pule Hill, and looking out “across a huge circumference of inspiration and influence. Starting westwards it’s Manchester and Lancashire, so it’s Joy Division and the Fall, it’s the Smiths and Elbow, it’s Magazine and the Buzzcocks and Happy Mondays … Sheffield, which for me will always be the Comsat Angels, and maybe Pulp ... the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, which is Barbara Hepworth as a young girl in Wakefield, watching the dark horizon from her father’s car. Keep revolving further and it’s Larkin and Marvell, then Ayckbourn … Leeds is Bennett and Harrison and Henry Moore – and Bradford is Hockney and Priestley … further still there’s a line of wind turbines on the escarpment above Haworth, which is Brontë country. And a few more degrees brings Mytholmroyd and Hebden Bridge and Heptonstall … which is Hughes” – whose work, encountered at school, “lit me up” and made him a poet – “And which is Plath. Then I’m back where I started from, full circle, looking north. Wordsworth, maybe, on a clear day, if the eyes could see that far.”</p><hr class="dcr-z9ge1j" style="background-color: gainsboro; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 48px; width: 150px;" /><h2 id="1e468517-affb-45ea-ab00-7935eed49584" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 3px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></h2><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Armitage did not want to be interviewed</strong> at his own house, apparently because a journalist warned him against allowing this particular intimacy years ago. The stricture didn’t apply to his parents’ house, however, and so we climbed down the hill and drove round to theirs (that “end of terrace” in Zoom!), for a cup of tea. Rather in the way that Armitage’s tight local focus has delivered an international audience, so the house he grew up in, tiny in front, tiny inside, opened on to a tiny patio with a vast view. Below us the land dropped away, into Marsden – terraced cottages, relics of the wool and textile industry, all loured over by a huge derelict mill – and then climbed up again, back into the moors. His tiny bedroom, on the first floor, had a window that looked out on all this. “That window,” he wrote recently in Poetry Review, “became the template for all my future poetry, an almost literal frame, which mimicked the shape of the page and provided a perspective through which I continue to see not just the village but life and the world.”</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Armitage’s father is “a born exaggerator”, a barbershop singer and amateur actor once described by his son as “leaning forward into the applause as if it were sunlight on his face”. He was already a probation officer when Armitage went into the trade, and reportedly rather put out when his son retired before he did. Armitage gets a fair amount of prose mileage out of his father’s witty reactions – to the first appearance of the earring he still wears, to the announcement that he was a poet – but the knockabout is moderated by obvious care and respect, and as we settled on to the patio, in bright sunshine, Armitage leaned back and simply let his father perform. When he did speak, it was as his father does, in a Yorkshire accent far broader than is evident the rest of the time.</p><aside class="dcr-1jdqcld" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 3px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--pullquote-text); font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.5rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.15; margin: 14px 0px; max-width: 80%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><svg class="dcr-scql1j" style="fill: var(--pullquote-icon);" viewbox="0 0 22 14"><path d="M5.255 0h4.75c-.572 4.53-1.077 8.972-1.297 13.941H0C.792 9.104 2.44 4.53 5.255 0Zm11.061 0H21c-.506 4.53-1.077 8.972-1.297 13.941h-8.686c.902-4.837 2.485-9.411 5.3-13.941Z"></path></svg><blockquote class="dcr-zzndwp" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Armitage’s father is 'a born exaggerator', a barbershop singer and amateur actor</blockquote></aside><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Dialect and deliberately northern inflections are central to both the music and the politics of Armitage’s poetry. “Poems are all about signalling,” he often says in question and answer sessions after readings. “We live in a world where as soon as you open your mouth you are pretty much nailed. [People] know you not just horizontally and cartographically, they know you vertically as well, where you stand in the class structure, what your parents did, where you went to school. And I think writers are very aware of that and play with it” – as he does, by sticking the word “mush”, meaning face, into a formal sonnet, for instance. One of the many reasons he chose to translate the medieval poem Gawain and the Green Knight (2007) was that the anonymous poet obviously came from the same part of the world, and Armitage felt an affinity with the words he used, the landscape and rhythms. The translation did well, selling 35,000 copies so far, despite earning Armitage a rap on the knuckles from the eminent critic Frank Kermode, for the “naughtiness” of his frequent modernisms and anachronisms (“I kid you not”; “bum-fluffed bairns”) and occasional ad-libbing.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">His mother arrived, and stood looking over the scene. Both parents are 80 now, and while his father claims to be perfectly happy where he is, his mother obviously has a hankering to travel – “Lake Como,” she said, pointedly, looking at her extremely well-travelled son. When Armitage did his walk down the Pennine Way, he was psychologically hampered, as one critic put it, by the fact that she had done it before him, at about 50. His mother worked as a non-teaching assistant at a couple of infant schools; his father, trained as a plumber, worked as a tyre salesman and, as his son once said, as “a bit of a free agent and wheeler-dealer” before fetching up in the probation service. Often there wasn’t much money; sometimes, Armitage suspects, none at all, though “I don’t remember that anxiety being passed on to us.”</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">“I remember when something new came into the house,” he had said to me earlier that morning. “It was astonishing. Like a vase. Or god forbid a settee. We’d sort of stand round it and gawp at it.” In Armitage’s poetry, objects are described with surprising exactness, partly for their own sake, partly for their roles in (often male) ceremonies and processes – and partly as instant metaphors. “Most objects speak volumes about their social value.” In his work the language of objects allows, at its best, complex, unspelled-out layers of social commentary, and shows, at its least, a sophisticated knack for lists.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">John Updike once suggested that he was prolific because he treated writing like a nine-to-five job, rather than a fitful process of waiting for a muse; that he and others like him, such as Joyce Carol Oates, were “blue-collar writers”. Armitage, whose bibliography now includes 21 books of poetry, five of non-fiction, two novels, 21 films, many radio plays, and five works for theatre (not to mention the fact that, with his wife Sue Roberts, he performs in an eight-person band called the Scaremongers), is undeniably prolific, to an extent that seems to provoke suspicion in the literary world: if you produce that much, with such fluidity, it cannot possibly be good. “I definitely don’t think of it as a job,” said Armitage. “I had a job once and I got rid of it. But I completely understand that idea of coming from a working-class background and wanting to get on with something. There is a sort of satisfaction in being self-employed or self-made, homemade.” The Armitage household is one of enthusiasms: music, cricket, astronomy, birdwatching, art, walking, and acting – lots of acting. Armitage Senior’s all-male pantomime (he is writer and director) is so popular that it is always sold out way ahead of Christmas; in Marsden, he is the undisputed star, not his son. Back in his home town, Armitage Junior’s success, anywhere in the world, is still measured in terms of the capacity of the local Parochial hall – “2.5 Parochial halls? Not bad.” Hence, perhaps, his gregariousness, his tendency to hang poems on a story or a fragment of story, his ease with performance: tell a tale, a yarn, grab your audience by the collar and drag them along with you – a disposition that achieves a kind of zenith in the brilliant, moving prose poems of his 2010 book <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/may/09/seeing-stars-simon-armitage-review" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Seeing Stars</a>.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">But gregariousness, humour and ease, while alluring, are not the same as emotional availability. An attempt to ask about his first marriage – the subject of unusually personal poems in his fourth collection, <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/dec/27/featuresreviews.guardianreview11" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Book of Matches</a> – was swiftly shut down. “You were married before,” I begin. “Was I?” There are distancing devices everywhere in the work: the emphasis on stories and concrete things can push the focus outward rather than inward, and a performer doesn’t have to display feelings he doesn’t choose to. “He’s guarded,” said Maxwell, who has fond memories of often quite silent walks through Iceland. “Everyone should be. His public person is certainly not fake. It’s an authentic public persona. He knows the difference and he guards the border.”</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">After we left his parents, Armitage gave me a tour of Marsden: the Parochial, the school, the bust of Samuel Laycock (the village’s other famous poet) overlooking the playground. When we stopped for lunch, sloppy sandwiches on a bench in the main square, family acquaintance after family acquaintance walked past, saying hello. Suddenly it all became too much. “It feels like being in the Truman Show,” said Armitage. “Let’s go.” But not before a middle-aged man came up to him. “Mr Armitage?” Yes. “Great reading you.” Thank you. “Now, I’ve been trying to get tickets to your father’s pantomime …”</p><hr class="dcr-z9ge1j" style="background-color: gainsboro; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 48px; width: 150px;" /><figure class="dcr-5h0uf4" data-spacefinder-role="showcase" data-spacefinder-type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement" id="d6ee8f98-cc94-4d76-b8b5-a1c44bb80c2a" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; 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vertical-align: baseline;">Simon Armitage talks about his latest collection of poetry, Paper Aeroplane, at a London bookshop.</span> Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian</figcaption></figure><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On stage in London,</strong> Armitage introduced another poem. “I think every poet at some stage in their writing life should try and write the definitive home-town poem. With Huddersfield, that was difficult. I didn’t really know what to lock on to as a coordinate. I eventually felt that the one thing that was most authentic were these synthetic – sort of Tudor – coffeehouses.” Laughter. “They’ve even proliferated into Halifax.” The laughter built. “There’s a drive-in! Ye olde drive-in coffee-house.” The poem is addressed to the “women of the Merrie England Coffee Houses”, in a tone that is insistently physical, both sexual and respectful of them as mothers, from the remembered point of view of a young Armitage and his friend, “the boy Smith”, who spent afternoons in those coffeehouses, grateful to be allowed to eke out “one toasted teacake between us” as they tried to write. “O women of the Merrie England, under those scarlet aprons, are you naked?” “He’s writing about a world he loves,” says Jeremy Noel-Tod, a poet and academic who has followed Armitage’s work for 20 years. And while Armitage is never going to express emotions in a high-blown way, that does not mean they are not there: that gratefulness; the fact – delivered in an aside – that the Boy Smith’s mother fell asleep at the wheel. “There’s a grief that’s not being talked about here – I think that’s really part of the Englishness of his work. He’s very good at talking about how things are not talked about.” It’s a tricky thing to pull off, and while the poem veers close to objectification, it works, in the end. The audience sighed, appreciative.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">When we had finished in Marsden, Armitage drove me into Huddersfield to take the train, and, while we were waiting, to a Merrie England Coffee House (via a building topped by a fibreglass lion about which he has also written a poem) for a cup of tea. I could see how it was, once, how much it meant, the permission given and the start made; but also just how much has changed since. In his statement of candidacy for professor at Oxford, Armitage wrote that he would use the post “to discuss the situation of poetry and poets in the 21st century, to address the obstacles and opportunities brought about by changes in education, changes in reading habits, the internet, poetry’s decreasing ‘market share’, poetry’s relationship with the civilian world and the (alleged) long, lingering death of the book.” When he walked the Pennine Way, doing a gig a night, for Walking Home, he made much of the fact that he was testing the health of poetry in general – was it even alive? Would people come? All it really tested, I suggested, is how well Armitage, specifically, is doing. He bristled. “No, I disagree. In some of those places people didn’t know who I was but they came along to listen to a poetry reading. And anyway, even if they did know it was me, it’s still poetry.” <span data-dcr-style="bullet" style="background-color: #866d50; border-radius: 50%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; content: ""; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; height: 13px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0.2px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 13px;"></span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuc1Wvt4hzY0BZ_OZR9ka1OYa4QGqnE6LsZsmJb1vajTU78cmRc2evOOt6W-lGkZTBzn0FFiTP9Pzuj1Ac_aYBivNCnzgepS-qnxWdeD7lYUYDiMXdCycwq5HEf_p-1lLRjDN39qwPbfhpbZwjYKgvJqSNnum8ybnq2a7fGDrtgFstUdyh_77S3ANtNDs/s3900/invierno%20001w.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2600" data-original-width="3900" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuc1Wvt4hzY0BZ_OZR9ka1OYa4QGqnE6LsZsmJb1vajTU78cmRc2evOOt6W-lGkZTBzn0FFiTP9Pzuj1Ac_aYBivNCnzgepS-qnxWdeD7lYUYDiMXdCycwq5HEf_p-1lLRjDN39qwPbfhpbZwjYKgvJqSNnum8ybnq2a7fGDrtgFstUdyh_77S3ANtNDs/w482-h321/invierno%20001w.jpeg" width="482" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">WINTER END, HERTFODSHIRE</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">by Assia Wevil</div><br /><br />...To see again and no more<br />The black northern pond,<br />Its autumn spent,<br />Its eye burning with crippled cedar<br />wings<br />And four black feet deep with<br />Summer's rotting rooks,<br /><br /><br />Like Thomas Hood’s and my time’s<br />Unlamented, spring less, passed.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: large;"><i><br style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-size-adjust: auto;" /></i></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><br /></i></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaVYkIDLOFzkVUBTMfeY8NAHh1a5vZUKfK3AXXhOwM31i8c2BGJyondarGAkqrFa6UWuQWlU4pMXxwcnb0FxwSTpkyB2borjPx8bSDdZhVb4VMEwpGdcz2DCJAQglhapPZ__oxoYgrPI1lYKCxPH8Xja1DyfFC-1ulC5URy4cYzIHlHcftw_MeHzkUh5Qp/s720/Nicoletta%20Furlan_Naufragio%20del%20Sogno.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="688" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaVYkIDLOFzkVUBTMfeY8NAHh1a5vZUKfK3AXXhOwM31i8c2BGJyondarGAkqrFa6UWuQWlU4pMXxwcnb0FxwSTpkyB2borjPx8bSDdZhVb4VMEwpGdcz2DCJAQglhapPZ__oxoYgrPI1lYKCxPH8Xja1DyfFC-1ulC5URy4cYzIHlHcftw_MeHzkUh5Qp/w486-h508/Nicoletta%20Furlan_Naufragio%20del%20Sogno.jpeg" width="486" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nicoletta Furian</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><br /></i></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">MAGNIFICAT</span></p><div><span style="font-size: large;">by Assia Wevil<br /><br /><br />...And I do praise the force that falls<br />With loosened stones and plunging force<br />Of clear ghost-rivers in dried beds.<br />And besides this watchful course<br />Of hours and currents, watersheds<br />Of welcome, do I praise the eye<br />That finds me welcome,<br />needing no reply.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbLleusNWeYBagII-Zfgt799wATkRd0DmM6yPygH5Q8bzAQbjeHL3Y8JZmwIF63ysvLa618SDVpWD935-2k5JF0bWlrPi2UFHZr7qQMVF41cdlT2-LQo0NI6-l3jOMbJB7_eyiebMf1yRew1i83TCA2RHUp8kd06Cm4eEWtUSR-AWVh9nfMNrbi2f6Xcc/s155/0000%20Kiss.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="124" data-original-width="155" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbLleusNWeYBagII-Zfgt799wATkRd0DmM6yPygH5Q8bzAQbjeHL3Y8JZmwIF63ysvLa618SDVpWD935-2k5JF0bWlrPi2UFHZr7qQMVF41cdlT2-LQo0NI6-l3jOMbJB7_eyiebMf1yRew1i83TCA2RHUp8kd06Cm4eEWtUSR-AWVh9nfMNrbi2f6Xcc/s1600/0000%20Kiss.jpg" width="155" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Ficcioneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11113302074119512881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277488048470036745.post-39620682871672283332023-11-21T10:35:00.007-05:002023-11-21T10:41:07.814-05:00Safiya Sinclair / ‘As a girl I felt small within Rastafari’<br /><br /> <br /><img height="382" src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/20947cf04fb60844bd9305407fc9a1591a4d6c7b/0_152_7997_4798/master/7997.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none" width="637" /><div>‘I didn’t want to write from a place of hurt or vengeance’: Safiya Sinclair. Photograph: Steve Craft/</div><div><br /><div><div class="dcr-13fq93x" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 4px 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dcr-n35fox" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 3px; -webkit-box-decoration-break: clone; background-color: #6b5840; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgb(107, 88, 64) 6px 0px 0px, rgb(107, 88, 64) -6px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline-block; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="dcr-hosx8y" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tone/interview" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; -webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-pack: justify; align-items: center; background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; height: initial; justify-content: space-between; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: initial; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-underline-offset: inherit; text-wrap: nowrap; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Interview</a></div></div><h1 class="dcr-147zz9e" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 4px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 2.125rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 42px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><span class="dcr-17joxcd" style="-webkit-box-decoration-break: clone; background-color: #121212; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgb(18, 18, 18) -6px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 4px 4px 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Poet Safiya Sinclair: ‘As a girl I felt small within Rastafari’</span></h1><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-weight: 700;">The Jamaican poet on her new memoir chronicling life with an authoritarian father, reconfiguring the postcard image of her homeland and her love of Marvel comic books</span></p><br />Hephzibah Anderson<br />Saturday 7 October 2023<p><br /></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span class="dcr-11l45yn" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; float: left; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 111px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 92px; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: text-top;">A</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">ward-winning poet Safiya Sinclair, 39, teaches creative writing at Arizona State University, but she was raised in a strict Rastafari home in Jamaica, where her reggae musician father used faith and control to keep her from absorbing outside influences. Smart and bookish thanks to her mother’s love of literature, she soon began thirsting for independence and a voice of her own, eventually escaping to college in the US. She chronicles her embattled becoming in <em class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">How to Say Babylon</em>, an electrifying memoir that embraces not only the role of women within Rastafari culture, but also what it means to grow up poor in a “paradise” scarred by slavery and colonialism.</span></div><p></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">How did you know you were ready to write this book?</span></strong></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I felt called to it a little bit over a decade ago now, but there were a lot of wounds that were still fresh, and I didn’t want to write from a place of hurt or vengeance. In 2018, I went back to Jamaica to do a reading and my father came to hear me for the first time. I read a poem that I had written for him, and when I got off the stage, after years of feeling I’d been diminished and never heard by him, he whispered in my ear: “I’m listening and I hear you.” In that moment, I just felt this catharsis – a literal, physical release of burdens from my body – and I said: “OK, I think I can actually begin this book because I know where it ends.”</div></span><p></p><div id="sign-in-gate" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><gu-island clientonly="" 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style="box-sizing: border-box;"></gu-island></span></div><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">What were the most challenging sections?</span></strong></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The sections where I am an adolescent were just punishing. It’s such a turbulent age but throw in being ostracised at school for being Rastafari, and then going home and feeling like I didn’t belong inside its strictures – it was a hard and heavy place to return to. Some of the later chapters, when I talk about the decision to finally cut my dreadlocks and leave, and my father’s hurt and anger and violence – those were really hard to write as well. I was typing and weeping.</div></span><p></p><aside class="dcr-t5rx1e" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 3px; background-color: #f6f6f6; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #6b5840; float: left; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 10px 1.75rem -120px; padding: 6px 10px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;"><svg class="dcr-rj2jmf" viewbox="4 4 24 16"><path d="M9.2776 8H14.0473C13.4732 12.5489 12.9653 17.0095 12.7445 22H4C4.79495 17.142 6.4511 12.5489 9.2776 8ZM20.3852 8H25.0887C24.5808 12.5489 24.0067 17.0095 23.7859 22H15.0635C15.9688 17.142 17.5587 12.5489 20.3852 8Z"></path></svg><blockquote class="dcr-928886" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For me, poetry was survival, a crucial, life-saving place of order in a household ruled by uncertainty and chaos</blockquote><footer style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite class="dcr-gu2lh8" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #866d50; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></cite></footer></aside><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">You write near the end that you’re slowly trying to forgive your father. Has writing the book helped with that?</span></strong></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;">It was a gift that in writing it, I had to talk to my father about his own childhood and how he came to Rastafari, and then sit in his head and express his feelings, humanising him in a way that he’d never allowed me to do because he’d just loomed so large as an authority figure. The big revelation has been my capacity for forgiveness because before, I would not have said I was a particularly forgiving person.</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The book’s dialogue is so vivid.</span></strong></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In Jamaica, we have a patois and then the Rastafari also have their own vernacular, some of which I tried to capture. It stems from this anticolonial linguistic rebellion – they’ll say “overstand” instead of understand, “apprecilove” instead of appreciate. It’s what I will be writing about in my next poetry collection, thinking through what I’m calling Rasta poetics. This anticolonial lyric frame was also something that inspired my own sense of linguistics and my personal poetics.</div></span><p></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There’s some strikingly beautiful nature writing on these pages but it’s not without tension.</span></strong></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I really wanted to renarrativise this postcard idea of Jamaica. It is a strange thing, having all this beauty and natural wonder but not being able to access it and pay the price of living in, quote unquote, “paradise”. The beaches in Jamaica are owned by the hotels, they’re private – Jamaicans have to save up to go.</div></span><p></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What’s your relationship with Rastafari like these days?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">I don’t really now have any deep connection beyond my father and brother being deeply devoted Rasta bredren. As a girl, I felt small within Rastafari, I had no voice. Obedience and silence and being compliant were seen as the highest virtues a woman could have, and I’ve never been obedient or silent or compliant.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Have any of its teachings stayed with you?</span></strong></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The most positive thing was this very deep and affirming Black pride. My siblings and I would learn the speeches of [political activist] Marcus Garvey and we were always entrenched in this idea of Black upliftment. I’ve always walked tall and proud in my Blackness.</span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Your father made a living playing reggae in hotels. Was it a musical home?</span></strong></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Every day, pretty much, we’d wake up and hear guitar strumming. Our mum encouraged us to write and perform our own songs, and we even had a little family band once, travelling around Jamaica performing these songs about saving the environment.</div></span><p></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Tell me about the role of literature in your childhood.</span></strong></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;">For me, poetry was survival, a crucial, life-saving place of order in a household that was ruled by uncertainty and chaos. My mother always had us reciting and memorising poems and reading books. Because of that, the world felt expansive to us, and writing was a big help expanding the possibilities of my own life. I can’t talk glibly about literature and poetry because it’s an actual fact that it changed the trajectory of my life.</div></span><p></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The poems you recited were by the likes of William Blake, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and </strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">it wasn’t until you were much older that you discovered West Indian poets such as Derek Walcott. Do those first literary loves still hold meaning for you?</strong></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I will never lose a love of any book, any writer, any poem that was a guiding light to me on my journey of being a poet and finding my voice. It began in Jamaica with the dead white men, and it’s to me crucial and critical that I know them – and where they live so I can burn their houses!</div></span><p></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What book are you</strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> reading?</strong></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I’m reading a novel called <em class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/09/chain-gang-all-stars-by-nana-kwame-adjei-brenyah-review-a-big-and-bold-dystopian-satire-that-lacks-nuance" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chain-Gang All Stars</a> </em>by <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/08/author-nana-kwame-adjei-brenyah-on-us-policing-its-a-kind-of-poison" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah</a>. He’s thinking about this dystopian future where prisoners are forced to fight each other for sport, televised, and it’s rooted in the history of racialised violence in America, and also this fascination with televised violence. It’s fantastic and I encourage everyone to read it.</div></span><p></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Are there any books we’d be surprised to find on your shelves?</span></strong></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;">My siblings and I loved Marvel comic books growing up. Even now we have a group chat where we’re talking about all that. I also really love video games so I have books about <em class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/games/final-fantasy" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Final Fantasy</a></em><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/games/the-legend-of-zelda" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a>and <em class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/games/the-legend-of-zelda" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Legend of Zelda</a></em>.</div></span><p></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Is there a text that you regularly reread?</span></strong></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I reread Audre Lorde’s <em class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://guardianbookshop.com/sister-outsider-9780241410509" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sister Outsider</a></em> several times a year. Lorde, for me, is a very foundational writer and crucial to my own thinking as a poet and a womanist. I also reread <em class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://guardianbookshop.com/song-of-solomon-9780099768418" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Song of Solomon</a></em> by <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/06/toni-morrison-obituary" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Toni Morrison</a> as often as I can. Those are my two touchpoints.</div></span><p></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What do you plan on reading next?</span></strong></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/11/jesmyn-ward-home-mississippi-living-with-addiction-poverty-racism" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jesmyn Ward</a>’s <em class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://guardianbookshop.com/let-us-descend-9781526666710" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Let Us Descend</a></em>. She’s my favourite living writer. There’s a sumptuous feast of language there for me as a poet, which I don’t always find with a lot of novels. I come away feeling deeply inspired to push myself and the possibilities of language on the page.</div></span><p></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Do you have another prose project on the go?</span></strong></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I have a multigenerational novel about Jamaican history, told over 600 years, beginning with the arrival of Columbus and the decimation of the native Taino people, and ending in the near future, thinking about the oncoming climate collapse. It’s told through six women and it’s called <em class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">If We Must Die</em>, from a <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44694/if-we-must-die" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">really intense Claude McKay poem</a> about colonialism and slavery.</div></span><p></p><ul class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><li class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flow-root; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Safiya Sinclair will be in conversation with Ayanna Lloyd Banwo about her book on 18 October in south London. </p></li><li class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flow-root; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><em class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir </em>by Safiya Sinclair is published by HarperCollins (£16.99). </p></li></ul><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/07/poet-safiya-sinclair-as-a-girl-i-felt-small-within-rastafari-how-to-say-babylon-a-jamaican-memoir">THE GUARDIAN</a></span></p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Qi0PsxeEDahBd203kqZ5fja7LKacW6-nmb9eiWsb2qcxksqfwIeNJmSd9lObuchM_ZMOGCk3BWfEbNX8m85wiL9j-RJ0R-nftH6nBGZ_oNUqw13ARHyYcp2Z7XWUAXFynqB1l6_weK1R7q5-oM6-1ckxC6nHmeExZBAPwCmM7PGEYqaImTPoMzWDX-4/s155/0000%20Kiss.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="124" data-original-width="155" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Qi0PsxeEDahBd203kqZ5fja7LKacW6-nmb9eiWsb2qcxksqfwIeNJmSd9lObuchM_ZMOGCk3BWfEbNX8m85wiL9j-RJ0R-nftH6nBGZ_oNUqw13ARHyYcp2Z7XWUAXFynqB1l6_weK1R7q5-oM6-1ckxC6nHmeExZBAPwCmM7PGEYqaImTPoMzWDX-4/s1600/0000%20Kiss.jpg" width="155" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><br />Safiya Sinclair will be in conversation with Ayanna Lloyd Banwo about her book on 18 October in south London. Book a space <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-say-babylon-a-jamaican-memoir-with-safiya-sinclair-tickets-731852700127?aff=ebdsoporgprofile">here</a><br /><br /><br />How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair is published by HarperCollins (£16.99). </div></div>Ficcioneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11113302074119512881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277488048470036745.post-81030176821478239842023-11-14T04:42:00.001-05:002023-11-14T04:42:48.614-05:00Thinking Anew / Philip Larkin in his `Wondering what to look for’ speaks for many today<p> </p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZKxHnN8ND_qpuJADCxTufYdhf2mIjRsV41exbER-XTdMKrAtH_N7YeA7ohV8LhHivSl2hqZjiF2iGvKpw8Hjw_Iit2_XEqBu4UnpFkbo0OnJXpJ0xh3Ja0ofKsBcTQQku-4kaknr-oS0W1831zi_I4bFC0lwwbIFHzHn8wL1b9yQmJr_QNTIKOtRVBJc/s620/PHILIP%20LARKIN%20with%20Veronica.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="620" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZKxHnN8ND_qpuJADCxTufYdhf2mIjRsV41exbER-XTdMKrAtH_N7YeA7ohV8LhHivSl2hqZjiF2iGvKpw8Hjw_Iit2_XEqBu4UnpFkbo0OnJXpJ0xh3Ja0ofKsBcTQQku-4kaknr-oS0W1831zi_I4bFC0lwwbIFHzHn8wL1b9yQmJr_QNTIKOtRVBJc/w507-h304/PHILIP%20LARKIN%20with%20Veronica.jpeg" width="507" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Philip Larkin </td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><h1 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-ybxuz7-0 jGeesm custom-headline flex flex_justify_center text-align_center" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; font-family: "Noto Serif JP", serif; font-size: 2.5rem; justify-content: center; line-height: 3rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Thinking Anew: Philip Larkin in his `Wondering what to look for’ speaks for many today</h1><h2 class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-nwz1jt-0 ftfvHJ custom-subheadline font_normal font_md margin-md-bottom flex flex_justify_center text-align_center color_themes_medium-grey" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #575757; display: flex; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.875rem; font-weight: 400; justify-content: center; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px 0px 2.3125rem; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">It is a reminder that most of us seek a deeper and richer understanding of the meaning and purpose of life</h2><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Gordon Linney<br />Saturday 28 October 2023</span></div><div><br /><p class="default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; font-family: "Noto Serif JP", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: 2.125rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">In his poem Church Going, Philip Larkin describes leaving an empty and underused church building that he had wandered into: “Back at the door I sign the book/ donate an Irish sixpence/ Reflect the place was not worth stopping for.” But then he continues: “Yet stop I did: in fact I often do/ And always end much at a loss like this/ Wondering what to look for/ wondering too/ When churches fall completely out of use/ What we shall turn them into…”</p><p class="default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; font-family: "Noto Serif JP", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: 2.125rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">At one level, he is addressing the fact that churches in the West as we have known them are struggling with falling attendances and ageing congregations. This is both sad and challenging for those still committed, especially clergy who are being asked to do more and more with less and less while, at a leadership level, there is a lack of a credible vision to share with the wider world. There seems to be an inability to articulate a message that addresses the felt needs of people today. Instead, we get bogged down in endless discussions about issues that divide and exclude people, such as the role of women in the church and gender identity.</p><div style="aspect-ratio: 1024 / 693; background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; font-family: "Noto Serif JP", serif; font-size: 18px;"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><img data-lightbox="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/2BzEUFYAyM5kRrNMbjbpRYguXVo=/1600x0/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/QUBGXJE4FNDCLHS4WY3GLLZUOE.jpg" height="0" loading="eager" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/2BzEUFYAyM5kRrNMbjbpRYguXVo=/1600x0/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/QUBGXJE4FNDCLHS4WY3GLLZUOE.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative; vertical-align: middle; width: 921.656px;" width="1600" /></picture></div><figcaption style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #9a9a9a; font-family: "Noto Serif JP", serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0.5rem;"><p class="ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1gn0vty-0 kEZEMR image-metadata" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Philip Larkin: in Church Going, he describes leaving an empty and underused church building that he had wandered into. Photograph: Barry Wilkinson</span></p></figcaption><figcaption style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #9a9a9a; font-family: "Noto Serif JP", serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0.5rem;"><p class="ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1gn0vty-0 kEZEMR image-metadata" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br /></span></p></figcaption><p class="default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; font-family: "Noto Serif JP", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: 2.125rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">Exclusivism has little appeal to more widely travelled younger generations that have a greater appreciation of the human diversity that was known to and understood by Jesus. The church he founded was intended to reach out to the margins of society, to welcome the least of our brothers and sisters, and even our enemies. As Fr Richard Rohr put it: “When any church defines itself by exclusion of anybody, it is always wrong. It is avoiding its only vocation, which is to be Christ. The only groups that Jesus critiques are those who include themselves and exclude others from the always-given grace of God.”</p><p class="default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; font-family: "Noto Serif JP", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: 2.125rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">Larkin in his “Wondering what to look for…” speaks for many today. It is a reminder that most of us, religious and so-called non-religious alike, seek a deeper and richer understanding of the meaning and purpose of life.</p><p class="default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; font-family: "Noto Serif JP", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: 2.125rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">In his book Broken Signposts, former bishop of Durham Tom Wright says that we need relationships at every level in order to be human, especially in “today’s rootless society”. He writes: “We sense that something is amiss with the way things are. We want to find, as we say, ‘true love’ not just in the often-trivial sense of the ideal romance, but something that is solid, lasting, utterly reliable, and constantly life giving. That is why, even in today’s cynical world, most people love to celebrate a wedding. It appears to be raising a flag of hope in the midst of a world of broken dreams. It points to something much, much more than itself. There is an important paradox there: the deep love that has brought these two particular individuals together into this challenging and demanding commitment and relationship is not, after all, just about them. It is about all of us. About the world. About (as St John would say) God and the world. About Jesus.”</p><p class="default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; font-family: "Noto Serif JP", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: 2.125rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">In tomorrow’s gospel, Jesus tells his followers what is key to a meaningful life: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind ... You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” This is not just about doing; it is about being – being in love with God and each other, the God who the First Epistle of St John insists is love. In every moment of love shared, a kiss, a hug, a generous deed, God is real and present, recognised or not.</p><p class="default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; font-family: "Noto Serif JP", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: 2.125rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">“Yet stop I did: in fact I often do,” wrote Larkin the agnostic about his church visit and goes on to explain: “It pleases me to stand in silence here; A serious house on serious earth it is… /And that much never can be obsolete /Since someone will forever be surprising /A hunger in himself to be more serious /And gravitating with it to this ground…”</p><a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2023/10/28/thinking-anew-philip-larkin-in-his-wondering-what-to-look-for-speaks-for-many-today/">IRISH TIMES</a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSc2gcqy_qMeJe4HxULYkQGWIxaDIJhd8avz4PP-BDkVXk-z0DaHVODX4s72Sh0LsbHiPNEsT_cfckOnw7aM1_CuYzbxjwW5-zIW7dbesr2gNksEbEIYNveHFYy5_N60H8AGbXE_PvCniSb056aUtgkxoTaKabaEN9QCZkzMlPOGNF6d1e63r1DIOHz-w/s117/0000%20dragon_circle_un%20cuarto.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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padding: 0px;"><br /></p></div>Ficcioneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11113302074119512881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277488048470036745.post-69927534577918569922023-11-08T03:26:00.003-05:002023-11-08T03:26:27.621-05:00After years of scandal, Philip Larkin finally has a spot in Poets’ Corner<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU_uOfEtLialAswSmsDWLMGDp1JjBHLdBFJQFNZbBp_1qjKHk-h8zlBOh5xrIHLBTer3cIZgR88ZGa_ot4fRQ8DBKJTDHfiiVmFHkr-v9evZIym9WwMjzq66ZIWa3bAUEH0Nmc90bX43kEZx9FZpzH3bAA6Zs_azEVO4GzthqqS4q7eism7pElbj0qlhk/s275/Philip%20Larkin%20042.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="655" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU_uOfEtLialAswSmsDWLMGDp1JjBHLdBFJQFNZbBp_1qjKHk-h8zlBOh5xrIHLBTer3cIZgR88ZGa_ot4fRQ8DBKJTDHfiiVmFHkr-v9evZIym9WwMjzq66ZIWa3bAUEH0Nmc90bX43kEZx9FZpzH3bAA6Zs_azEVO4GzthqqS4q7eism7pElbj0qlhk/w436-h655/Philip%20Larkin%20042.jpeg" width="436" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Philip Larkin </td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><br /></p><div style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; 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border: 0px; left: -12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 10;">After years of scandal, Philip Larkin finally has a spot in Poets’ Corner</span></h1></div></div><div class="timestamps" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><time content="2016-12-02T09:47:16Z" datetime="2016-12-02T09:47:16Z" itemprop="datePublished" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #4b4b4e; display: inline-block; margin: -1px 0px 0px -12px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></time></div>James Underwood<br />Published: December 2, 2016 9.47am GMT<div><br /><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><blockquote><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Philip Larkin, one of English poetry’s most recognisable voices, has been memorialised in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">His ledger stone was unveiled on Friday December 2 alongside tombs and memorials commemorating some of the finest writers in English literary history, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Tennyson, and T S Eliot. The ceremony took place 31 years to the day since Larkin’s death.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">This is an occasion foreseen by Larkin himself, whose place in Poets’ Corner would probably have been guaranteed had he accepted the Poet Laureateship in 1984. Larkin was touted for this role as early as 1972; on that occasion it went to John Betjeman, a poet he admired. When Betjeman died in 1984, Larkin was the obvious choice. He didn’t share the public’s enthusiasm, but was reflective about his place in literary history: “I think there will be a space for me,” he told his mother.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Although a household name – a rare thing in poetry – Larkin had spent three decades dodging attention. Reports of the so-called Hermit of Hull’s reclusiveness were exaggerated, but it’s true that he largely avoided public roles – and what role in British poetry is more public, more bardic, than the laureateship? Larkin wasn’t joking when he told one acquaintance: “I just couldn’t face the 50 letters a day, TV show, representing British Poetry in the ’poetry conference at Belgrade’ side of it all.” To Andrew Motion, a later Laureate, he wrote: “Think of the stamps! Think of the stamps!”</p><div class="slot clear" data-id="17" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Having politely declined, Larkin knew he had gifted Ted Hughes – a poetic rival – a spot in Westminster Abbey. But when Larkin died the year after, he was already known as Britain’s “unofficial Laureate”. One obituary <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%E2%80%9Cthe+funniest+and+most+intelligent+English+writer+of+the+day%2C+and+the+greatest+living+poet+in+our+language%E2%80%9D+peter+levi&oq=%E2%80%9Cthe+funniest+and+most+intelligent+English+writer+of+the+day%2C+and+the+greatest+living+poet+in+our+language%E2%80%9D+peter+levi&aqs=chrome..69i57.2835j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #4b4b4e; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">hailed him</a> as “the funniest and most intelligent English writer of the day, and the greatest living poet in our language”. Perhaps the spot unveiled in the Abbey was always his.</p></blockquote><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><figure class="align-center" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; 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--tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; display: block; filter: blur(0px); height: 597px; inset: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline; width: 754px;" /></div><figcaption style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #4b4b4e; cursor: default; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="caption" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Poets’ Corner.</span> <span class="attribution" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #212121; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wikimedia Commons</span></figcaption></figure><h2 style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Posthumous scandal</h2><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But this outcome wasn’t always so certain. Scandal in the 1990s threatened to obliterate Larkin’s reputation. The publication of a <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books-mr-miseryguts-philip-larkins-letters-show-all-the-grim-humour-that-was-a-hallmark-of-his-great-1558190.html" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #4b4b4e; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Selected Letters</a> in 1992, containing foul-mouthed tirades against women, ethnic minorities, and the working-class, was swiftly followed by Motion’s 1993 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/jul/05/poetry.highereducation" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #4b4b4e; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">biography</a>, which revealed Larkin’s heavy drinking, pornographic habits, and multiple infidelities.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Influential cultural critics rushed to denounce Larkin. Lisa Jardine <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jun/27/philip-larkin-love-hate-women" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #4b4b4e; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">lambasted</a> his “Little Englandism”, boasting “we don’t tend to teach Larkin much now in my department of English”. Tom Paulin spoke of Larkin’s “quasi-fascism”, and the “distressing and in many ways revolting compilation which imperfectly reveals and conceals the sewer under the national monument Larkin became”.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This was a troubling and hysterical reaction to biographical disclosures. However regrettable, Larkin’s bigotry was performative and insincere; much of his behaviour was also judged against puritanical moral standards. More pernicious was the reinterpretation of his work in the light of these new perceptions of his life. Bizarrely, poems hitherto loved for their humanity were suddenly dismissed as the eruptions of a bitterly prejudiced man.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessments today <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jun/27/philip-larkin-love-hate-women" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #4b4b4e; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">tend to be less extreme</a>, but the way we think about Larkin is still jammed somewhere between celebratory and condemnatory impulses. The Philip Larkin Society has campaigned over many years for a Poets’ Corner memorial, but the previous dean rejected this on the grounds of Larkin’s agnosticism, and an unofficial policy requiring writers to be dead for 20 years.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><blockquote><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">As neither criterion prevented Hughes from being commemorated in 2011, it’s not unreasonable to wonder whether other anxieties were at play. The current dean expressed a different view: “I have no doubt that his work and memory will live on as long as the English language continues to be understood.” His sentiment wisely refocuses attention on what matters most: the poetry.</p><h2 style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Poets’ Corner</h2><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Poets’ Corner is one of the most famous areas of Westminster Abbey. The tradition of burying or commemorating the nation’s best writers there began in the 16th century, when a tomb was erected for Chaucer, buried in the abbey 250 years earlier.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">English literary history is extraordinarily diverse, and scholars have subjected its canon – as both a concept and a holding place – to extensive critique since at least the 1980s. But as a reflection of literary history, Poets’ Corner is selective and partial, and it may be a long time before the south transept becomes less male and less white.</p><figure class="align-center" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><figcaption style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #4b4b4e; cursor: default; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="attribution" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #212121; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></figcaption></figure><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">But then it was never “designed”, and chance has played its part in the erratic evolution of this collective memorial as much as cultural conservatism. Chaucer, for example, was buried there because of his day job as clerk of works to the Palace of Westminster; that he wrote The Canterbury Tales had nothing to do with it. And while 2016 has been a year of Shakespearean saturation marking 400 years since The Bard’s death, 124 years went by before the most famous name in English literature entered Poets’ Corner. Larkin’s 31 years isn’t much compared to that.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Larkin’s emotionally ambivalent attitude to Christianity is surely not unique these days. In Church Going, one of his most magnificent works, the narrator finds himself “at a loss”, unable to accept religious “superstition”, or even explain why he visits the church. But something pulls him there nonetheless – perhaps because “so many dead lie round”. Larkin keenly felt his own relation to the poetic dead; a stone bearing his name now lies close to at least two writers he worshipped, Thomas Hardy and D H Lawrence. There is much in Larkin’s work to suggest he would have been moved by this act of “awkward reverence”.</p></blockquote><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/after-years-of-scandal-philip-larkin-finally-has-a-spot-in-poets-corner-68527">THE CONVERSATION</a></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><picture class="dcr-evn1e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><img alt="Ishion Hutchinson" class="dcr-evn1e9" height="279" src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2fc8bfaf176f96325a14ed2e12f4b1f2f4d852c7/145_1157_3535_2121/master/3535.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 0 0 auto; font: inherit; height: 372px; margin: 0px; object-fit: cover; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 620px;" width="465" /><span class="dcr-1m6r8g1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #707070; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Visions of war … Ishion Hutchinson.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #707070; font-family: GuardianTextSans, "Guardian Text Sans Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #707070; font-family: GuardianTextSans, "Guardian Text Sans Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">Photograph: Eamonn McCabe</span></picture></div><figure class=" dcr-13rnsx0" data-spacefinder-role="thumbnail" data-spacefinder-type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement" id="d0d2372e-dbb2-404c-b68d-8cf9479d1392" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline-block; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;">Review</div></div><h1 class="dcr-186f9ox" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 4px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 2.125rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The best recent poetry – review roundup</h1></div></div></div><div class="dcr-1yi1cnj" data-gu-name="standfirst" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; grid-area: standfirst / standfirst / standfirst / standfirst; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class=" dcr-xq41iu" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 3px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--standfirst-text); font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 540px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson; The Wrong Person to Ask by Marjorie Lotfi; Housebreak by Shareen K Murayama; Cowboy by Kandace Siobhan Walker; Incubation: A Space for Monsters by Bhanu Kapil</p></div></div><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Rebecca Tamás</span><br /><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Friday 3 November 2023</span><br /><br /><strong><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://guardianbookshop.com/school-of-instructions-9780571383511?utm_source=editoriallink&utm_medium=merch&utm_campaign=article" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">School of Instructions</a></strong><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> by </strong><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ishion Hutchinson</strong><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (</strong><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Faber</strong><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, </strong><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">£12.99</strong><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">)</strong></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">This visionary work of memory, elegy and loss captures the experiences of West Indian soldiers who fought for the British in the first world war. The collection weaves together the terrors of war with the terrors of imperialism, using dizzyingly original language and brutally impactful rhythms to create a tapestry of suffering, courage and struggle: “Frostbitten mud. Shellshock mud. Dungheap mud. Imperial mud … Caliban mud. Cannibal mud.” These experiences filter into the book’s second narrative, the life of Godspeed, a schoolboy living in Jamaica in the 1990s. Hutchinson subtly outlines the ways in which colonial force was perpetuated by language, English culture thrust into young minds with its own kind of violence: “Godspeed skulled elocution day … and so missed the shrieking out of ‘And then my heart with pleasure fills, / And dances with the daffodils.’ Bayonet fighting amid the cactus hedges …” The collection sings of those who “have no memorial who are perished as though they had never been” – reanimating their lives within the deathless, vivid fabric of poetry.</p><div id="sign-in-gate" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><gu-island 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href="https://www.guardianbookshop.com/the-wrong-person-to-ask-9781780376394?utm_source=editoriallink&utm_medium=merch&utm_campaign=article" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Wrong Person </a></strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-link-name="in body 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style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Marjorie Lotfi</strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (</strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: 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font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">)</strong></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Lotfi’s imagistically rich debut collection moves from her childhood in Iran, where her family were uprooted by the revolution, to her youth in America and her current home in Scotland. Lotfi is sensitively attuned to the painful dislocation of self that can come from moving between different nations – “In my dream she asks me to say it again, / Lotfi, spell it out, before turning me away … I push through the exit / and walk home in rain to a house / that isn’t mine, in a country that isn’t mine.” Again and again her radiant language turns over the loss of family intimacy and identity caused by political upheaval and violence: “Ask about Ameh, her arms around my skinny frame, / or how I can have forgotten Farsi and the sound / of her voice bidding me each night to let the day go.” Lotfi’s book mourns these losses and separations, while at the same time rendering the possibilities of a capacious, multifaceted sense of belonging: “And what is home if not the choice – / over and over again – to stay?”</p><figure class=" dcr-13rnsx0" data-spacefinder-role="thumbnail" data-spacefinder-type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement" id="8b115ebb-a6c7-451a-88e4-902f96c8447c" style="background-color: white; 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font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Housebreak</strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> by </strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shareen K</strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Murayama</strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (</strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bad Betty</strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, </strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">£10</strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></strong>A book of many griefs, personal and intimate as well as political and societal. The poet’s loss of her mother, first to dementia and then to death, is explored with arresting dark humour and piercing clarity: “I tell myself I’m not going to write another dead mom poem. / Nevertheless she arrives, promptly. In a care home fisted with careless bags of food or a spam musubi. / A comfort offering in reverse.” The book also addresses the trauma caused by hate crimes against Asian-Americans during the pandemic: “How you failed at making yourself smaller / in the pocket of your seat on your way to work this morning … <em class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">nasty people should stay in fucking Asia.”</em><em class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> </em>Yet in the face of pain and prejudice, it remains fierce and bristling with life: “I have faith in folktales, like my grandmother’s story. / Anyone could be saved or eaten. Their tongues cut out.”</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.guardianbookshop.com/cowboy-9781800818149?utm_source=editoriallink&utm_medium=merch&utm_campaign=article" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cowboy</a></strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> by </strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kanda</strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ce Siobhan Walker</strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (</strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cheerio</strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, </strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">£11</strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></strong>This debut is hilarious, moving and dazzlingly new. Running through topics as varied as love, gentrification, neurodivergence, gender, queerness, death, life in the internet age, low wage jobs and capitalist exploitation, these poems create a gloriously sharp picture of modern millennial life and struggle: “Communism was cool again, Instagram was attractive. / Students were in occupation. Sad boys were novelties, / sad girls aspirational.” Walker’s greatest strengths are her beautifully odd imagery (“Nighttime’s religious core is wherever you / touch me; I’m absolutely dolphins. I’m molten”) and the mordant, painfully dark humour of her poetic voice. “What a beautiful day to have a miscarriage! … / There’s the beginning of you. I bleed / through my pyjamas – there’s the end.” Cowboy<em class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> </em>marks the entry of a significant and exciting new voice into British poetry.</p><figure class=" dcr-13rnsx0" data-spacefinder-role="thumbnail" data-spacefinder-type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement" id="678dadfe-0269-463a-9905-e431ef4d68d3" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #121212; float: left; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 8px 20px 8px -160px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 140px;"><div class="dcr-1t8m8f2" id="img-6" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><picture class="dcr-evn1e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><source media="(min-width: 740px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 740px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)" srcset="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a497b85b64da24f95d63a7a126291d053b4e78bc/0_0_990_1500/master/990.jpg?width=140&dpr=2&s=none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 740px)" srcset="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a497b85b64da24f95d63a7a126291d053b4e78bc/0_0_990_1500/master/990.jpg?width=140&dpr=1&s=none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 320px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 320px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)" srcset="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a497b85b64da24f95d63a7a126291d053b4e78bc/0_0_990_1500/master/990.jpg?width=120&dpr=2&s=none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 320px)" srcset="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a497b85b64da24f95d63a7a126291d053b4e78bc/0_0_990_1500/master/990.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><img alt="Incubation: A Space for Monsters by Bhanu Kapil" class="dcr-evn1e9" height="181.8181818181818" loading="lazy" src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a497b85b64da24f95d63a7a126291d053b4e78bc/0_0_990_1500/master/990.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font: inherit; height: 212px; margin: 0px; object-fit: cover; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 140px;" width="120" /></picture></div></figure><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.guardianbookshop.com/incubation-9781913513405?utm_source=editoriallink&utm_medium=merch&utm_campaign=article" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Incubation: A Space for Monsters</a></strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> by </strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bhanu Kapil</strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (</strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prototype</strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, </strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">£12</strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></strong>This hybrid work of poetry and prose from the TS Eliot prize winning author is as fresh, dangerous and thrilling as the open road followed by protagonist Laloo, a cyborg traveller who is both girl and mother, immigrant and settler. Laloo hitchhikes through the bewitching yet hostile American landscape, reflecting on her own complicated pasts in England and India, and her fractured relationship with herself. She is searching for the transformation or escape that journeying might provide: “I didn’t want to go home … A beautiful hazard: to go and keep going.” In these capacious and innovative poems of global shift and radical monstrosity, it is the brilliant potency of Kapil’s images that holds the threads of the narrative together: “At the highway exit, the hitchhiker is all bones and a red T-shirt in the ruby red tail lights … Cars whizzing by in a frenzy of rubies and diamonds.”</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/03/the-best-recent-poetry-review-roundup">THE GUARDIAN</a><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; 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background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p>Ficcioneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11113302074119512881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277488048470036745.post-59457545941755840752023-10-28T17:18:00.004-05:002023-10-28T17:20:03.095-05:00Marigold and Rose by Louise Glück review – the babies’ tale<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYhNxCT9lRF8YdXArf9AQouqrqrB_ICrzoPsYx8NwHmYGbRfT8y_2vkXpn7Dvpfy9YNdzO84MfKcuL2KKWI-JSe68taH81Vo9Z3xHSge_28IV30baxfs0Rs9K4bUr9RaSzrDuboKeDvTi3N7kWkOLN6enmTWj935QsVw20bw7qPDYCI48c-bmSJE_Io_M/s1920/Louise%20Glu%CC%88ck%20by%20Webb%20Chappell.jpg" style="color: #ff9900; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="1920" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYhNxCT9lRF8YdXArf9AQouqrqrB_ICrzoPsYx8NwHmYGbRfT8y_2vkXpn7Dvpfy9YNdzO84MfKcuL2KKWI-JSe68taH81Vo9Z3xHSge_28IV30baxfs0Rs9K4bUr9RaSzrDuboKeDvTi3N7kWkOLN6enmTWj935QsVw20bw7qPDYCI48c-bmSJE_Io_M/w486-h292/Louise%20Glu%CC%88ck%20by%20Webb%20Chappell.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="486" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px; text-align: center;">Louise Glück</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></p><div class="dcr-1djovmt" data-gu-name="headline" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; grid-area: headline / headline / headline / headline; line-height: inherit; 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font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;">Review</div></div><h1 class="dcr-186f9ox" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 4px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 2.125rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Marigold and Rose by Louise Glück review – the babies’ tale</h1></div></div></div><div class="dcr-1yi1cnj" data-gu-name="standfirst" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; grid-area: standfirst / standfirst / standfirst / standfirst; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dcr-1f36xae" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 3px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 540px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Nobel prize-winning poet’s first novel is a subversive, sophisticated vision of the first year in the lives of twin girls</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2023/10/louise-gluck-nobel-prize-winning-poet.html">Louise Glück, Nobel prize-winning poet, dies at 80</a></p></div></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Fiona Sampson</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Friday 25 November 2022</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="dcr-7pg7ab" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 5px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; float: left; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 2.625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="dcr-1uaoxbs" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 5px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 111px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 93px; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: none; vertical-align: text-top;">W</span></span><span style="color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">hen the American poet Louise Glück was </span>awarded the Nobel prize for literature<span style="color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"> in 2020, the Swedish Academy commended her “voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”. They might have added that she makes the individual female experience universal, joining it to the canon of male mythology in ways even her titles make clear. The Seven Ages, from 2001 – a stunning reflection on human destiny – was preceded by both The Triumph of Achilles (1985) and Ararat (1990), for example, and followed by Averno (2005), named after the traditional site of the entrance to hell. While her earlier work explores family psychodrama, these books portray the emotional violence of mid-life. In 13 poetry collections and two volumes of essays, Glück’s emotional intelligence never surrenders to cosy consolation, yet the writing remains exquisitely beautiful.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">None of this has changed in her first published fiction. Marigold and Rose can be devoured in a single sitting, and that’s probably the best way to enter its tonal world, which is strangely hypnotic, in part because the mood never swings to violent intensity, and in part because of the orderly rhythms of Glück’s prose. Ten short chapters tell us – though not in exact chronological order – about the first year in the life of twin girls, the eponymous Marigold and Rose. During this period their grandmother dies, their mother experiments with going back to work, and they are “distracted, like all babies, by feelings of triumph. First crawling, then walking and climbing, then talking.”</span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The book might sound limited or even, given its subject matter, twee. Being Glück, it is nothing of the sort. Instead, like her poetry, it gains its force from acute observation. In the final chapter, for example, as the protagonists attend a celebration for their first birthday, “Marigold … looked grimly out at the party from her high chair. Chaos and imprecision, she thought. Grown-ups were milling about … Meanwhile people they didn’t know were touching them and calling them lambs and chickens though it was perfectly obvious they were human babies. Aging human babies, Marigold thought.”</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Which is funny, in a wryly goth way. But humour isn’t this book’s endgame. Readers familiar with Glück’s writing will be reminded of the spare poetic diction she developed in her breakthrough second collection, The House on Marshland (1975), with its fine-drawn narratives of family life. As if to underline the resemblance to her verse, each chapter of Marigold and Rose is divided not into paragraphs running discursively from one to another, but into linked blocks of text separated by what elsewhere in her work we would call stanza breaks. And indeed these text blocks do work rather like the discrete stanzas of a poem. Each acts as a kind of choreographed freeze-frame within the story: juxtaposed, they resemble a frieze.</p><aside class="dcr-q9zy3m" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 3px; background-color: #f6f6f6; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 1.75rem -38px; padding: 6px 10px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><svg class="dcr-rj2jmf" viewbox="4 4 24 16"><path d="M9.2776 8H14.0473C13.4732 12.5489 12.9653 17.0095 12.7445 22H4C4.79495 17.142 6.4511 12.5489 9.2776 8ZM20.3852 8H25.0887C24.5808 12.5489 24.0067 17.0095 23.7859 22H15.0635C15.9688 17.142 17.5587 12.5489 20.3852 8Z"></path></svg><blockquote class="dcr-928886" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This novella offers a tender examination of alternative ways into girlhood, one of which is by way of being a writer</blockquote></aside><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">This way of writing brilliantly evokes the timelessness of early childhood, and indeed of babyhood, before a child has even adapted to her own circadian rhythms. There is that sense of suspension, of living without past or future, which is the superpower of infancy: “Outside the playpen there were day and night. What did they add up to? Time was what they added up to … At the other end of time your official life began, which meant that it would one day end.”</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">All this creates a subversive vision in which adults are imprisoned by time, and also by language. And it’s here the author is at her most transgressive, clothing the nuanced reactions of the babies in sophisticated language – even while acknowledging that they don’t have such words. Indeed, only Rose has learned to speak by the end of the book: “Since she had started talking, Rose felt she was turning into a tyrant. And Marigold was quieter than ever … studying the alphabet book for clues.” Readers wedded to realism may find this strategy irritating, but it’s a way to explore the prelinguistic life of an infant without reducing it to incoherence. And, after all, clothing the hidden inner lives of others with words is what all fiction does.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">We learn, piecemeal, that Marigold is the smaller, frailer twin, as well as the second-born, and that the pair started life in an incubator. There are reflections on unity and individuation: punningly, on their first birthday the monozygotic twins wonder how they can “turn one” when they already “had been, Marigold knew. Long ago, when they were an egg.” Rose is a gregarious extrovert, while “next to Marigold’s name there were a lot of needs improvement boxes checked”. But the book isn’t hung up on the occult nature of twinship. Instead, its identical twin girls feel more like a way to imagine two simultaneous versions of the (female) self.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The twins observe each other’s vulnerabilities and triumphs with the protectiveness of allies. Rose worries about Marigold’s unworldliness. “And then, because she was like her name, steadfast and true, she united herself with her sister, as though they were a single story to which Mother and Father were just witnesses.” This novella offers a tender examination of alternative ways into girlhood, one of which is by way of being a writer. “Marigold was writing a book. That she couldn’t read was an impediment. Nevertheless, the book was forming in her head. The words would come later.” A portrait of the artist as infant twins? I think so. And for this consummate dive into the multiple possibilities of selfhood, we should be grateful.</p><p><a name="more" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></a></p><footer class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span data-dcr-style="bullet" style="background-color: #866d50; border-radius: 50%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; content: ""; display: inline-block; font: inherit; height: 13px; margin: 0px 0.2px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 13px;"></span> Fiona Sampson’s <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://guardianbookshop.com/starlight-wood-9781472156020" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Starlight Wood: Walking back to the Romantic Countryside</a> is published by Corsair. 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position: relative;" /></a><br /><br />FICCIONES<br /><a href="http://triunfoarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/casa-de-citas-manuel-borras-louise-gluck.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Casa de citas / Manuel Borrás / Louise Glück</a><br /><br /><div>DE OTROS MUNDOS<br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-nobel-de-literatura-2020.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Nobel de Literatura 2020</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-traicion-mortalidad-y-amor.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Traición mortalidad y amor</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/la-elegancia-de-louise-gluck.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">La elegancia de Louise Glück</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-gana-el-premio-nobel-de.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück gana el Premio Nobel de Literatura 2020</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-ascender-lo-hondo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Ascender a lo hondo<br /></a><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-bravura-para-decir-y-para.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Bravura para decir y para callar</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-escribo-sobre-la.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Escribo sobre la mortalidad, fue un shock descubrirla en la infancia<br /></a><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/con-poemas-de-louise-gluck-la.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Con poemas de Louise Glück, la traducción es milimétrica</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-vendimos-mas-libros-de-la.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Vendimos más libros de la Nobel en un cuarto de hora que en 14 años</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/por-un-dolar-conversacion-con-louise.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Por un dólar / Conversación con Louise Glück</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-poeta-de-un-mundo-caido.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Poeta de un mundo caído</a></div><div><br />Poemas<br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-puesta-de-sol.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Puesta de sol</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-la-primera-nieve.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / La primera nieve</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-vestido.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El vestido</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-deseo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El deseo<br /></a><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-dilema-de-telemaco.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El dilema de Telémaco</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-la-terquedad-de-penelope.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / La terquedad de Penélope</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-puerto-deportivo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Puerto deportivo</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-faithful-and-virtuous-night.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Faithful and Virtuos Night</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-espejo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El espejo</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-semejanza-final.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Semejanza final</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-confesion.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Santas</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-lamium.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Lamium</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-espino.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El espino</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-limite.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El límite</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-amante-de-las-flores.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Amante de las flores</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-iris-salvaje.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El iris salvaje</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-la-decision-de-odiseo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / La decisión de Odiseo</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-una-aventura.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Una aventura<br /></a><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-los-ninos-ahogados.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Los niños ahogados</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-todos-los-santos.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Todos los Santos</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-musica-celestial.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Música celestial</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-gretel-en-la-oscuridad.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Gretel en la oscuridad</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-amor-bajo-la-luz-de-la-luna.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Amor bajo la luz de la luna</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-confesion_14.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Confesión</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-parabola-de-los-cisnes.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Parábola de los cisnes</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-dia-del-trabajo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Día del trabajo</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-amor-perdido.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Amor perdido</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-una-novela.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Una novela</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-la-cancion-de-penelope.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / La canción de Penélope</a></div></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-circulo-quemado.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Círculo quemado</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-parabola-de-la-bestia.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Parábola de la bestia</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-nostos.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Nostos</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br /></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;">MESTER DE BREVERÍA</div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="https://eltriunfoarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-dos-mujeres.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Dos mujeres</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br />KISS<br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-meadowlands.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Meadowlands</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br /></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;">Poems<br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-dawn.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Dawn</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-april.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / April</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-mirror-xlisto.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / The Mirror</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-edge.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / The Edge</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-all-hallows.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / All Hallows</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-gretel-in-darkness.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Gretel in the Darkness</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-parable-of-swans.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Parable of the Swans</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-love-poem.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Love Poem</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-penelopes-song.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Penelope's Song</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-nostos.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Nostos</a><br /><br />PESSOA<br /><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-conquista-o-nobel-de.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück conquista O Nobel de Literatura 2020</a><br /><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-o-espelho.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / O espelho</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-confissao.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Confissão</a><br /><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-iris-selvagem.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / A íris selvagem</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-lamium.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Lamium</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-itaca.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Itaca</a><br /><br />RIMBAUD<br /><a href="http://temporadaenelcielo.blogspot.com/2020/10/la-poetesse-americaine-louise-gluck.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">La poétesse américaine Louise Glück reçoit le Prix Nobel de littérature</a><br /><br />DRAGON</div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="https://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-wins-2020-nobel-prize-in.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel prize in literature</a><br /><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-where-to-start-with.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Where to start with an extraordinary Nobel winner</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-nobel-winner-whose-poems.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / A Nobel Winner Whose Poems Have Abundant Intellect and Deep Feeling</a><br /><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-faithful-and-virtuous.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Faithful and Virtuous Night / Acquainted With the Dark</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-languages-of-myth-and-art.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Languages of Myth and Art and Religion</a><br /><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-glukc-meadowlands-review-by.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Meadowlands / Review by Elizabeth Macklin</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-meadowlands-odyssey.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Meadowlands / The Odyssey Revisited</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/for-dollar-louise-gluck-in-conversation.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">For a Dollar / Louise Glück in Conversation</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/an-interview-with-louise-gluck.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">An Interview with Louise Glück</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJaC3c_IaDZJ2cF-OTGAlsehc63sbAe92ZolsvqK4RFHkTmI4Ff8UL3uvFH3VoYpl3jYGwwfhBeojRHr8zv92SXs5acFfw0ooXO1tsMOzTP5zMje4dy4YAMfYOW745lwkihRWMa2bhgUGXbIllbB3-9RLfbtSJAwlNT7GJSWjdNTleN4aBjdLBmCDfD4Y/s155/0000%20Kiss.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="124" data-original-width="155" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJaC3c_IaDZJ2cF-OTGAlsehc63sbAe92ZolsvqK4RFHkTmI4Ff8UL3uvFH3VoYpl3jYGwwfhBeojRHr8zv92SXs5acFfw0ooXO1tsMOzTP5zMje4dy4YAMfYOW745lwkihRWMa2bhgUGXbIllbB3-9RLfbtSJAwlNT7GJSWjdNTleN4aBjdLBmCDfD4Y/s1600/0000%20Kiss.jpg" width="155" /></a></div><br /><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br /></div></footer>Ficcioneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11113302074119512881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277488048470036745.post-36309345703910264812023-10-23T18:28:00.007-05:002023-10-28T17:19:37.798-05:00Louise Glück / A poet who never shied away from silence, pain or fear<p><br /></p><div class="dcr-1t8m8f2" id="img-1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><picture class="dcr-evn1e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><img alt="Louise Glück." class="dcr-evn1e9" height="279.0659340659341" src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b0e149ddaf138663228d25da4e6bb5d0f22c93ee/0_0_5642_3386/master/5642.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 0 0 auto; font: inherit; height: 372px; margin: 0px; object-fit: cover; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 620px;" width="465" /></picture></div><p><span class="dcr-1bn3p0w" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><figcaption class="dcr-o6npt4" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #707070; display: block; font-family: GuardianTextSans, "Guardian Text Sans Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 18.9px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="dcr-17eagbs" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; fill: rgb(112, 112, 112); font: inherit; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1em;"><svg height="13" viewbox="0 0 18 13" width="18"><path d="M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z"></path></svg></span><span class="dcr-1m6r8g1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘At the end of my suffering / there was a door’ … Louise Glück.</span><span> </span>Photograph: Susan Walsh</figcaption><p><br /></p><div class="dcr-1djovmt" data-gu-name="headline" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; grid-area: headline / headline / headline / headline; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dcr-14emo0l" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 620px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dcr-1msbrj1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 36px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="dcr-186f9ox" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 4px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 2.125rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Louise Glück: a poet who never shied away from silence, pain or fear</h1></div></div></div><div class="dcr-1yi1cnj" data-gu-name="standfirst" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; grid-area: standfirst / standfirst / standfirst / standfirst; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dcr-1f36xae" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 3px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 540px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Her work included long periods in which she wrote nothing – and when she did write, she had little sense that it was hers<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span data-dcr-style="bullet" style="background-color: gainsboro; border-radius: 50%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; content: ""; display: inline-block; font: inherit; height: 13px; margin: 0px 2px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 13px;"></span> <a href="https://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2023/10/louise-gluck-nobel-prize-winning-poet.html">Louise Glück, Nobel prize-winning poet, dies at 80</a></p><p style="border: 0px; 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font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span class="dcr-11l45yn" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; float: left; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 111px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 92px; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: text-top;"></span></p><blockquote><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span class="dcr-11l45yn" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; float: left; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 111px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 92px; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: text-top;">L</span><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">ouise Glück was reticent, careful about what she said. She could be distant. There was always a sense that her real life was lived in dreams and memories, in her imagination, in her time alone. With students, sometimes she suggested that they try silence, not working at all. That, she believed, might be best for someone who was writing the wrong poems or producing too much.<span><a name='more'></a></span></span></div><p></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">In her own poems, she worked with silence, breaking it, creating more space for it, leaving gaps, writing lines that would hold as much implication as they could.</span></p><div id="sign-in-gate" style="background-color: white; 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background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">When I interviewed her at the New York Public Library in 2017, <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://youtu.be/S3kQGM_KhHQ?feature=shared" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">she spoke about</a> the two years of silence, maybe two and half, that came before The Wild Iris, for which she won the Pulitzer prize in 1993. She was not writing badly, she said – she was simply not writing at all. Not a verb. Not a noun. She was living in Vermont and hardly reading anything either. Just gardening books.</span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">During this period, she had just two lines in her head, which had come to her out of the blue. But she had no idea where they might go, or even what they might mean.</span></p><blockquote class="dcr-1e7c919" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 16px 0px 16px 33px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">At the end of my suffering</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">there was a door.</span></div></span><p></p></blockquote><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Glück could not imagine the speaker of these words. But she would treasure the lines and whisper them to herself. She had a few false starts using them in a poem. She would even wonder if they would be enough for a very, very short poem.</span></p></blockquote><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><aside class="dcr-q9zy3m" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 3px; background-color: #f6f6f6; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 1.75rem -38px; padding: 6px 10px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><svg class="dcr-rj2jmf" viewbox="4 4 24 16"><path d="M9.2776 8H14.0473C13.4732 12.5489 12.9653 17.0095 12.7445 22H4C4.79495 17.142 6.4511 12.5489 9.2776 8ZM20.3852 8H25.0887C24.5808 12.5489 24.0067 17.0095 23.7859 22H15.0635C15.9688 17.142 17.5587 12.5489 20.3852 8Z"></path></svg><blockquote class="dcr-928886" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The voice in the poems was close and sharp but also wounded and exposed</blockquote><footer style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite class="dcr-gu2lh8" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #866d50; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></cite></footer></aside><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><blockquote><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">When spring came, she went to her garden. She wrote two bad poems about flowers. In her account of this, on the third day, using those two lines as the start, she began the book that became The Wild Iris and wrote all the poems in eight weeks. Some of her books afterwards were written fast as well, with very little revision. She felt no great satisfaction, however. She had little sense that she herself had made the poem. It was as though she had stolen it, or it had come from somewhere else.</span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">If Glück wrote a poetry of statement, then there was always understatement, undercurrent. The voice in the poems was close, direct, sharp but also intimate, wounded and exposed. She was not afraid to write about pain and fear in a way that was often self-lacerating. She lived with the dead as constant presences, almost as Emily Dickinson did.</span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even though some of the single-line sentences in her poems seem certain, exact, she was against certainty, or against a tone in poetry that lacked sharp shock, or surprise. She looked for something new that seemed true in a single jagged moment. Then her poem could settle into a quieter, starker music.</span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">If a poem began with a clear, raw statement, then it was interesting to watch her clotting the diction, using dashes, semi-colons, odd breaks in lines.</span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Her exploration of the self could be filled with what was personal and intimate, but surrounded with distancing effects. She was never openly or obviously confessional. The first person singular in her poems could be easy, familiar, but never for long.</span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Glück was not afraid of using words like “soul” or “god”, or making use of primal images of forest and light and dark and sun and moon. But the poems were not abstract. They were poems of hard experience. She didn’t do innocence. The poems were filled with emotions that she knew only too well.</span></p></blockquote><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/17/louise-gluck-a-poet-who-never-shied-away-from-silence-pain-or-fear">THE GUARDIAN</a><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkJmWUS_icxiP1Z4fjXqiqU-FJzM9s4pSgoBjRGppBwjK-DcsvENwIwCL7quCrlwIESw75tOz4P6LPf6opm2Do6M4F4jVgTRQrxMZp8OrmvBJDkKZTptjMJI7UOejUgcAnITR4_qBLG7Hw91Hu9DcFCKnposIaWEVSuT75WrvZRRsIxs_nGWprP9dAd60/s117/0000%20dragon_circle_un%20cuarto.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 2.125rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">First fiction work by Nobel prize-winning poet Louise Glück to be published in UK</h1><div class="dcr-1nvgr5i" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clip-path: inset(50%); clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); font: inherit; height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-wrap: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">This article is more than 1 year old</div></div></div></div><div class="dcr-1yi1cnj" data-gu-name="standfirst" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; grid-area: standfirst / standfirst / standfirst / standfirst; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dcr-jew0bi" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 540px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The 64-page ‘prose narrative’ Marigold and Rose: A Fiction – about twins in the first year of life – will be published in October</p></div></div><p><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sarah Shaffi</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Thursday 25 August 2022</span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The first work of fiction by American poet and Nobel laureate <a data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/louise-gluck" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Louise Glück</a> is to be published in the UK later this year.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Marigold and Rose: A <a data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/fiction" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fiction</a> is a “prose narrative” about the twins of the title, and follows them in the first year of their life as they “begin to piece together the world as they move between Mother’s stories of ‘Long, long ago’ and Father’s ‘Once upon a time’”.</p><div id="sign-in-gate" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; 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background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The book, which is just 64 pages long and will be released in October, is an “investigation of the great mystery of language and of time itself, of what is and what has been and what will be”, said Glück’s publisher Carcanet.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">“Simultaneously sad and funny, and shot through with a sense of stoic wonder, this small miracle of a book … is unlike anything Glück has written, while at the same time it is inevitable, transcendent,” it added.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Michael Schmidt, managing director at Carcanet, said that “each of Louise’s books is a unique and wonderful surprise”.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">He added that he and his colleagues “were quite unprepared for this work, in prose – a kind of prose we’d never seen before, out of the mouths of babes, the babes of the title, clear, truthful, without a trace of sentimentality”.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/08/louise-gluck-wins-the-2020-nobel-prize-in-literature" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Glück won the Nobel prize in 2020</a>, with the Swedish Academy hailing her “unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”. In winning, she became the first American woman to do so since Toni Morrison in 1993.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2020/bio-bibliography/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Anders Olsson</a>, chair of the Nobel prize committee, said Glück’s voice was “candid and uncompromising”, and that “Glück seeks the universal, and in this she takes inspiration from myths and classical motifs, present in most of her works”.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The 79-year-old has also previously won the Pulitzer prize and the National Book award. Her first book of poetry, Firstborn, was published in 1968, and she went on to win the Pulitzer prize for her 1992 collection The Wild Iris.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Reviewing a new collection of her work, Poems 1962-2020, for the Observer in 2021, <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/31/louise-gluck-poems-1962-2020-review-a-grand-introduction-to-the-nobel-prize-winner" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kate Kellaway said</a> that to read Glück’s work is “to encounter stillness and slow time”.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; 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text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL2S75uum_aV5kLculoivqNf1XDCpWS_CMj4fyzqX9bz047xtorZPJJL6OxZ-PWEA0yVJgelcaF13yW1bnzjK4ZD-iZha4VJp4yC70oaKHoRzU9XMPQSzA8ulogrGOcZe3JV-KedYC0BA/s0/000+BOOKS_the-three-wise-books+%25281%2529.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" /></a><br /><br />FICCIONES<br /><a href="http://triunfoarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/casa-de-citas-manuel-borras-louise-gluck.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Casa de citas / Manuel Borrás / Louise Glück</a><br /><br /><div>DE OTROS MUNDOS<br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-nobel-de-literatura-2020.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Nobel de Literatura 2020</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-traicion-mortalidad-y-amor.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Traición mortalidad y amor</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/la-elegancia-de-louise-gluck.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">La elegancia de Louise Glück</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-gana-el-premio-nobel-de.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück gana el Premio Nobel de Literatura 2020</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-ascender-lo-hondo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Ascender a lo hondo<br /></a><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-bravura-para-decir-y-para.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Bravura para decir y para callar</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-escribo-sobre-la.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Escribo sobre la mortalidad, fue un shock descubrirla en la infancia<br /></a><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/con-poemas-de-louise-gluck-la.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Con poemas de Louise Glück, la traducción es milimétrica</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-vendimos-mas-libros-de-la.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Vendimos más libros de la Nobel en un cuarto de hora que en 14 años</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/por-un-dolar-conversacion-con-louise.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Por un dólar / Conversación con Louise Glück</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-poeta-de-un-mundo-caido.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Poeta de un mundo caído</a></div><div><br />Poemas<br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-puesta-de-sol.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Puesta de sol</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-la-primera-nieve.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / La primera nieve</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-vestido.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El vestido</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-deseo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El deseo<br /></a><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-dilema-de-telemaco.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El dilema de Telémaco</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-la-terquedad-de-penelope.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / La terquedad de Penélope</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-puerto-deportivo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Puerto deportivo</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-faithful-and-virtuous-night.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Faithful and Virtuos Night</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-espejo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El espejo</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-semejanza-final.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Semejanza final</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-confesion.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Santas</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-lamium.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Lamium</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-espino.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El espino</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-limite.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El límite</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-amante-de-las-flores.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Amante de las flores</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-iris-salvaje.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El iris salvaje</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-la-decision-de-odiseo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / La decisión de Odiseo</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-una-aventura.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Una aventura<br /></a><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-los-ninos-ahogados.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Los niños ahogados</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-todos-los-santos.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Todos los Santos</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-musica-celestial.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Música celestial</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-gretel-en-la-oscuridad.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Gretel en la oscuridad</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-amor-bajo-la-luz-de-la-luna.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Amor bajo la luz de la luna</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-confesion_14.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Confesión</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-parabola-de-los-cisnes.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Parábola de los cisnes</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-dia-del-trabajo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Día del trabajo</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-amor-perdido.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Amor perdido</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-una-novela.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Una novela</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-la-cancion-de-penelope.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / La canción de Penélope</a></div></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-circulo-quemado.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Círculo quemado</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-parabola-de-la-bestia.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Parábola de la bestia</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-nostos.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Nostos</a></div><div><br /></div><div>MESTER DE BREVERÍA</div><div><a href="https://eltriunfoarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-dos-mujeres.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Dos mujeres</a></div><div><br />KISS<br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-meadowlands.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Meadowlands</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Poems<br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-dawn.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Dawn</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-april.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / April</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-mirror-xlisto.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / The Mirror</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-edge.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / The Edge</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-all-hallows.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / All Hallows</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-gretel-in-darkness.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Gretel in the Darkness</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-parable-of-swans.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Parable of the Swans</a></div><div><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-love-poem.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Love Poem</a></div><div><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-penelopes-song.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Penelope's Song</a></div><div><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-nostos.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Nostos</a><br /><br />PESSOA<br /><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-conquista-o-nobel-de.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück conquista O Nobel de Literatura 2020</a><br /><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-o-espelho.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / O espelho</a></div><div><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-confissao.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Confissão</a><br /><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-iris-selvagem.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / A íris selvagem</a></div><div><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-lamium.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Lamium</a></div><div><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-itaca.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Itaca</a><br /><br />RIMBAUD<br /><a href="http://temporadaenelcielo.blogspot.com/2020/10/la-poetesse-americaine-louise-gluck.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">La poétesse américaine Louise Glück reçoit le Prix Nobel de littérature</a><br /><br />DRAGON</div><div><a href="https://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-wins-2020-nobel-prize-in.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel prize in literature</a><br /><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-where-to-start-with.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Where to start with an extraordinary Nobel winner</a></div><div><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-nobel-winner-whose-poems.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / A Nobel Winner Whose Poems Have Abundant Intellect and Deep Feeling</a><br /><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-faithful-and-virtuous.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Faithful and Virtuous Night / Acquainted With the Dark</a></div><div><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-languages-of-myth-and-art.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Languages of Myth and Art and Religion</a><br /><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-glukc-meadowlands-review-by.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Meadowlands / Review by Elizabeth Macklin</a></div><div><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-meadowlands-odyssey.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Meadowlands / The Odyssey Revisited</a></div><div><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/for-dollar-louise-gluck-in-conversation.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">For a Dollar / Louise Glück in Conversation</a></div><div><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/an-interview-with-louise-gluck.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">An Interview with Louise Glück</a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcCjdSBISnC-TFj0V10TNOBt4wy4PaAUeimc2Qqviay9RzkeF8q2mS8i1qm73HAYDc-unaXQoDs-MpOgfJJc3x8H1ynq7LvKHecQ7ZMjvxQm_yFRzdF9Vh1yQfoVb3NLoMPgwQ6beKeSS87hnqM2wKUV81SsoniV6yN60zax1itGMZxd1_fiJ_8t7BS6Y/s155/0000%20Kiss.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="124" data-original-width="155" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcCjdSBISnC-TFj0V10TNOBt4wy4PaAUeimc2Qqviay9RzkeF8q2mS8i1qm73HAYDc-unaXQoDs-MpOgfJJc3x8H1ynq7LvKHecQ7ZMjvxQm_yFRzdF9Vh1yQfoVb3NLoMPgwQ6beKeSS87hnqM2wKUV81SsoniV6yN60zax1itGMZxd1_fiJ_8t7BS6Y/s1600/0000%20Kiss.jpg" width="155" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div></div>Ficcioneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11113302074119512881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277488048470036745.post-7700481937148711052023-10-15T15:42:00.003-05:002023-10-15T15:47:11.980-05:00Louise Glück, poet and Nobel laureate, dies at 80<p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; 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position: relative;" width="462" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px; text-align: center;">Louise Glück</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span face="ReithSerif, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #141414; font-size: 2.75rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span face="ReithSerif, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #141414; font-size: 2.75rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">Louise Glück, poet and Nobel laureate, dies at 80</span></p><div class="ssrcss-1bdte2-BylineComponentWrapper e8mq1e90" data-component="byline-block" style="background-color: white; 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border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b class="ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Acclaimed American poet and Nobel laureate in literature Louise Glück has died at the age of 80.</span></b></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">She received a Nobel in 2020, becoming the first American poet to win the honour since TS Eliot more than 70 years earlier.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><a name="more"></a><p></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Her poems often spoke of trauma and disillusion, with her most famous poem, "Mock Orange", questioning the value of love and sex.</span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Glück's death was confirmed by her <a class="ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0" href="https://twitter.com/fsgbooks/status/1712963267277017291?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet" style="border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: #141414; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: rgb(138, 140, 142); text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 0.25em; vertical-align: baseline;">publishers</a> on Friday.</span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">"Louise Gluck's poetry gives voice to our untrusting but unstillable need for knowledge and connection in an often unreliable world," her longtime editor Jonathan Galassi said in a statement. "Her work is immortal."</span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A friend told the New York Times that she died of cancer at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</span></p></div></div><div id="piano-inline1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Glück was the US poet laureate from 2003 to 2004 and most recently worked as a professor of English at Yale University and a professor of poetry at Stanford University.</span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">She was awarded almost every prize an American poet might hope for.</span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Nobel judges in 2020 praised her for "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal".</span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for her collection The Wild Iris, a book of poems which dealt with themes of suffering, death and rebirth.</span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Her other honours include the 2001 Bollingen Prize for Poetry, the Wallace Stevens Award, given in 2008, the National Book Award in 2014, and a National Humanities Medal, awarded in 2015 by Barack Obama.</span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Glück, whose name is pronounced "Glick", was born in 1943 in New York, and published more than a dozen books of poetry over her lifetime.</span></p></div></div><div id="piano-inline2" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Her works were short, often less than one page, and focused on the painful reality of being human, dealing with themes such as death, childhood, and family life.</span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">She also took inspiration from Greek mythology and its characters, such as Persephone and Eurydice, who are often the victims of betrayal.</span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Her debut book, released in 1968, was titled Firstborn and was published after she dropped out of college and had her first of two divorces.</span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Her father, who helped invent the X-Acto Knife, encouraged her writing. But she had a difficult childhood, which included hospital treatment for anorexia.</span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">"My interactions with the world as a social being were unnatural, forced, performances, and I was happiest reading," she said of her childhood in one 2006 interview.</span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For a sample of her work, look to the final line of her poem Nostos, named for a Greek term meaning "homecoming".</span></p></div></div><div id="piano-inline3" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We look at the world once, in childhood.</span></i></span></p></div></div><div class="ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0" data-component="text-block" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; max-width: 36.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; color: #141414; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The rest is memory.</span></i></span></p><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10" style="border: 0px; color: #141414; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; 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position: relative;" /></a><br /><br />FICCIONES<br /><a href="http://triunfoarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/casa-de-citas-manuel-borras-louise-gluck.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Casa de citas / Manuel Borrás / Louise Glück</a><br /><br /><div>DE OTROS MUNDOS<br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-nobel-de-literatura-2020.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Nobel de Literatura 2020</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-traicion-mortalidad-y-amor.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Traición mortalidad y amor</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/la-elegancia-de-louise-gluck.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">La elegancia de Louise Glück</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-gana-el-premio-nobel-de.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück gana el Premio Nobel de Literatura 2020</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-ascender-lo-hondo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Ascender a lo hondo<br /></a><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-bravura-para-decir-y-para.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Bravura para decir y para callar</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-escribo-sobre-la.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Escribo sobre la mortalidad, fue un shock descubrirla en la infancia<br /></a><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/con-poemas-de-louise-gluck-la.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Con poemas de Louise Glück, la traducción es milimétrica</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-vendimos-mas-libros-de-la.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Vendimos más libros de la Nobel en un cuarto de hora que en 14 años</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/por-un-dolar-conversacion-con-louise.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Por un dólar / Conversación con Louise Glück</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-poeta-de-un-mundo-caido.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Poeta de un mundo caído</a></div><div><br />Poemas<br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-puesta-de-sol.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Puesta de sol</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-la-primera-nieve.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / La primera nieve</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-vestido.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El vestido</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-deseo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El deseo<br /></a><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-dilema-de-telemaco.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El dilema de Telémaco</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-la-terquedad-de-penelope.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / La terquedad de Penélope</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-puerto-deportivo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Puerto deportivo</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-faithful-and-virtuous-night.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Faithful and Virtuos Night</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-espejo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El espejo</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-semejanza-final.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Semejanza final</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-confesion.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Santas</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-lamium.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Lamium</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-espino.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El espino</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-limite.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El límite</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-amante-de-las-flores.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Amante de las flores</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-iris-salvaje.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El iris salvaje</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-la-decision-de-odiseo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / La decisión de Odiseo</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-una-aventura.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Una aventura<br /></a><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-los-ninos-ahogados.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Los niños ahogados</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-todos-los-santos.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Todos los Santos</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-musica-celestial.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Música celestial</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-gretel-en-la-oscuridad.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Gretel en la oscuridad</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-amor-bajo-la-luz-de-la-luna.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Amor bajo la luz de la luna</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-confesion_14.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Confesión</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-parabola-de-los-cisnes.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Parábola de los cisnes</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-dia-del-trabajo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Día del trabajo</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-amor-perdido.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Amor perdido</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-una-novela.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Una novela</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-la-cancion-de-penelope.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / La canción de Penélope</a></div></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-circulo-quemado.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Círculo quemado</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-parabola-de-la-bestia.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Parábola de la bestia</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-nostos.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Nostos</a></div><div><br /></div><div>MESTER DE BREVERÍA</div><div><a href="https://eltriunfoarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-dos-mujeres.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Dos mujeres</a></div><div><br />KISS<br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-meadowlands.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Meadowlands</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Poems<br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-dawn.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Dawn</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-april.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / April</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-mirror-xlisto.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / The Mirror</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-edge.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / The Edge</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-all-hallows.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / All Hallows</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-gretel-in-darkness.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Gretel in the Darkness</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-parable-of-swans.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Parable of the Swans</a></div><div><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-love-poem.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Love Poem</a></div><div><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-penelopes-song.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Penelope's Song</a></div><div><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-nostos.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Nostos</a><br /><br />PESSOA<br /><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-conquista-o-nobel-de.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück conquista O Nobel de Literatura 2020</a><br /><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-o-espelho.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / O espelho</a></div><div><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-confissao.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Confissão</a><br /><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-iris-selvagem.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / A íris selvagem</a></div><div><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-lamium.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Lamium</a></div><div><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-itaca.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Itaca</a><br /><br />RIMBAUD<br /><a href="http://temporadaenelcielo.blogspot.com/2020/10/la-poetesse-americaine-louise-gluck.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">La poétesse américaine Louise Glück reçoit le Prix Nobel de littérature</a><br /><br />DRAGON</div><div><a href="https://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-wins-2020-nobel-prize-in.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel prize in literature</a><br /><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-where-to-start-with.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Where to start with an extraordinary Nobel winner</a></div><div><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-nobel-winner-whose-poems.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / A Nobel Winner Whose Poems Have Abundant Intellect and Deep Feeling</a><br /><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-faithful-and-virtuous.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Faithful and Virtuous Night / Acquainted With the Dark</a></div><div><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-languages-of-myth-and-art.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Languages of Myth and Art and Religion</a><br /><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-glukc-meadowlands-review-by.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Meadowlands / Review by Elizabeth Macklin</a></div><div><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-meadowlands-odyssey.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Meadowlands / The Odyssey Revisited</a></div><div><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/for-dollar-louise-gluck-in-conversation.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">For a Dollar / Louise Glück in Conversation</a></div><div><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/an-interview-with-louise-gluck.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">An Interview with Louise Glück</a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsx1e46JJ-uvbdfbDIqgpYwwhFVgAqg7tfMY3P9s946v-uzZjqUlOfoRLwPVym35K1NmsFZYIqymXfMLDMWOSTQdxRIDRsS5knZZ5NGmfjZVYPv60XRxkzvHmX1FUEOJpyvt56f7ZgofNGWQufgLBaJr0NWT4BV1aSMM2rjI04sfkm-36aLam-QMqqjuI/s155/0000%20Kiss.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0jEVyMTX2f6iUZ7bfIrc8Io8TnCd5hrTsihGh9ViYOB-axjVasIA6H5SD1BesRJiX0U94VbO5_vtURONbpK1S0Mw57K7uLVRNzSweqa1Bf_q2Vyo3oLQi1wyPP7dSmEOUonF6dAQ3ZaglWNmTFCwVtBZ9bo5R9KiR6WqnDkmgnGruo2vsmCg4x9fzZM0/w470-h470/louise%20glu%CC%88ck%20016s.png" width="470" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Louise Glück</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="dcr-1djovmt" data-gu-name="headline" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; grid-area: headline / headline / headline / headline; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dcr-14emo0l" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 620px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dcr-1msbrj1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 36px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="dcr-y70mar" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 4px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 2.125rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Louise Glück, Nobel prize-winning poet, dies at 80</h1></div></div></div><div class="dcr-1yi1cnj" data-gu-name="standfirst" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; grid-area: standfirst / standfirst / standfirst / standfirst; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dcr-jew0bi" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 540px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pulitzer prize winner and former US poet laureate was known for her sharp, austere lyrical work</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Adrian Horton</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Friday 13 October 2023</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/louise-gluck" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Louise Glück</a>, the Nobel prize-winning author and a former poet laureate of the United States, has died at the age of 80.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Her death was confirmed Friday to the <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://apnews.com/article/louise-gluck-dies-38648b2dc19644e11f42319145692943" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Associated Press</a> by Jonathan Galassi, her editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux.</p><div id="sign-in-gate" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><gu-island clientonly="" config="{"renderingTarget":"Web"}" data-island-status="rendered" deferuntil="visible" name="SignInGateSelector" priority="feature" props="{"contentType":"Article","sectionId":"books","tags":[{"id":"books/louise-gluck","type":"Keyword","title":"Louise Glück"},{"id":"books/books","type":"Keyword","title":"Books"},{"id":"us-news/us-news","type":"Keyword","title":"US news"},{"id":"type/article","type":"Type","title":"Article"},{"id":"tone/news","type":"Tone","title":"News"},{"id":"profile/adrian-horton","type":"Contributor","title":"Adrian Horton","twitterHandle":"adrian_horton","bylineImageUrl":"https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2022/12/12/Adrian_Horton.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c11e72cd6ee0d0954a579ad49e45e692","bylineLargeImageUrl":"https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2022/12/12/Adrian_Horton.png?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a46f6ac85bcd656465cf5862eb52cfa0"},{"id":"tracking/commissioningdesk/us-arts-and-culture","type":"Tracking","title":"US Arts and Culture"}],"isPaidContent":false,"isPreview":false,"host":"https://www.theguardian.com","pageId":"books/2023/oct/13/louise-gluck-prize-winning-american-poet-dead","idUrl":"https://profile.theguardian.com","switches":{"lightbox":false,"prebidAppnexusUkRow":true,"newsletterOnwards":false,"abSignInGateMainVariant":true,"commercialMetrics":true,"prebidTrustx":true,"scAdFreeBanner":false,"adaptiveSite":true,"frontsBannerAds":false,"prebidPermutiveAudience":true,"compareVariantDecision":false,"enableSentryReporting":true,"lazyLoadContainers":true,"ampArticleSwitch":true,"remarketing":true,"articleEndSlot":true,"verticalVideo":false,"registerWithPhone":false,"abBillboardsInMerchHigh":true,"keyEventsCarousel":true,"targeting":true,"remoteHeader":true,"slotBodyEnd":true,"prebidImproveDigitalSkins":true,"ampPrebidOzone":true,"extendedMostPopularFronts":true,"emailInlineInFooter":true,"showNewPrivacyWordingOnEmailSignupEmbeds":true,"deeplyRead":false,"ophanEsm":true,"prebidAnalytics":true,"extendedMostPopular":true,"ampContentAbTesting":false,"prebidCriteo":true,"verticalVideoSurvey":false,"okta":true,"abDeeplyReadArticleFooter":false,"puzzlesBanner":false,"imrWorldwide":true,"acast":true,"automaticFilters":true,"twitterUwt":true,"prebidAppnexusInvcode":true,"ampPrebidPubmatic":true,"frontsBannerAdsDcr":true,"a9HeaderBidding":true,"prebidAppnexus":true,"enableDiscussionSwitch":true,"prebidXaxis":true,"abEagerPrebid2":false,"stickyVideos":true,"interactiveFullHeaderSwitch":true,"discussionAllPageSize":true,"prebidUserSync":true,"audioOnwardJourneySwitch":true,"brazeTaylorReport":false,"abConsentlessAds":true,"externalVideoEmbeds":true,"abIntegrateIma":true,"callouts":true,"sentinelLogger":true,"geoMostPopular":true,"weAreHiring":false,"relatedContent":true,"thirdPartyEmbedTracking":true,"prebidOzone":true,"ampLiveblogSwitch":true,"ampAmazon":true,"prebidAdYouLike":true,"mostViewedFronts":true,"optOutAdvertising":true,"abSignInGateMainControl":true,"headerTopNav":true,"googleSearch":true,"brazeSwitch":true,"prebidKargo":true,"consentManagement":true,"personaliseSignInGateAfterCheckout":true,"redplanetForAus":true,"prebidSonobi":true,"idProfileNavigation":true,"confiantAdVerification":true,"discussionAllowAnonymousRecommendsSwitch":false,"permutive":true,"comscore":true,"headerTopBarSearchCapi":false,"ampPrebidCriteo":true,"webFonts":true,"prebidImproveDigital":true,"offerHttp3":true,"ophan":true,"crosswordSvgThumbnails":true,"prebidTriplelift":true,"weather":true,"disableAmpTest":true,"prebidPubmatic":true,"serverShareCounts":false,"autoRefresh":true,"enhanceTweets":true,"prebidIndexExchange":true,"prebidOpenx":true,"abElementsManager":true,"prebidHeaderBidding":true,"idCookieRefresh":true,"serverSideLiveblogInlineAds":true,"discussionPageSize":true,"smartAppBanner":false,"abPrebidKargo":true,"boostGaUserTimingFidelity":false,"historyTags":true,"brazeContentCards":true,"surveys":true,"remoteBanner":true,"emailSignupRecaptcha":true,"prebidSmart":true,"shouldLoadGoogletag":true,"inizio":true}}" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></gu-island></div><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">A poet of succinct candor, often sadness, who worked in allusions of classical mythology amid recollections and philosophical insights, Glück was <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/15/she-never-stops-making-demands-on-herself-how-us-poet-louise-gluck-won-the-nobel" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">awarded</a> the Nobel prize for literature in 2020.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The Nobel judges praised “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”. Her poems, often brutally sharp at a page or less, demonstrated her commitment to “the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence”.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">A native of New York, Glück published more than a dozen books of poetry in her lifetime, along with essays and a brief prose fable, Marigold and Rose. Her work was heavily influenced by classical mythology, Shakespeare and Eliot, among others.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">She received the Pulitzer prize in 1993 for Wild Iris, a book of poems which dealt with themes of suffering, death and rebirth. Other works include the collections The Seven Ages, The Triumph of Achilles, Vita Nova and the anthology Poems 1962-2012.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Besides the Pulitzer, Glück received numerous other literary awards, including Bollingen prize for lifetime achievement in 2001, the National Book award in 2014 for Faithful and Virtuous Night, and the 2015 National Humanities Medal for her “decades of powerful lyric poetry that defies all attempts to label it definitively”.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">She also served as the US poet laureate from 2003-2004, and taught generations of aspiring writers at such institutions as Stanford and Yale.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">Born on 22 April 1943 in New York City, Glück descended from eastern European Jews and was raised on Long Island. Her father, Daniel Glück, was a businessman partially credited with inventing the X-Acto knife; her mother, Beatrice Glück, was a homemaker.</span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">She developed an interest in poetry at a young age, though her later education was derailed by anorexia nervosa, which consumed much of her adolescence and early 20s. Too frail to attend college, Glück sat in on classes at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University, where she found mentors in the poet-teachers Léonie Adams and Stanley Kunitz.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">She later credited her life – and ability to write – to seven years of intensive psychoanalysis in her 20s. “Analysis taught me to think. Taught me to use my tendency to object to articulated ideas about my own ideas, taught me to use doubt, to examine my own own speech for its evasions and excisions,” she recalled during a 1989 lecture at the Guggenheim Museum. “The longer I withheld conclusion, the more I saw. I was learning, I believe, how to write, as well.” By her mid-20s, she was publishing poems in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly and other magazines.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Her first book of poems, Firstborn, was published in 1968 and preceded years of writer’s block; her second book, The House on Marshland, was released in 1975 to breakthrough literary success. Subsequent works, including The Wild Iris and Ararat, became testaments to creative reinvention and challenge. “The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last,” she once wrote.</p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Glück was married and divorced twice, first in 1967 to Charles Hertz Jr, and to John Dranow in 1977, with whom she shared a son, Noah.</p><footer class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; 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font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL2S75uum_aV5kLculoivqNf1XDCpWS_CMj4fyzqX9bz047xtorZPJJL6OxZ-PWEA0yVJgelcaF13yW1bnzjK4ZD-iZha4VJp4yC70oaKHoRzU9XMPQSzA8ulogrGOcZe3JV-KedYC0BA/s0/000+BOOKS_the-three-wise-books+%25281%2529.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" /></a><br /><br />FICCIONES<br /><a href="http://triunfoarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/casa-de-citas-manuel-borras-louise-gluck.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Casa de citas / Manuel Borrás / Louise Glück</a><br /><br /><div>DE OTROS MUNDOS<br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-nobel-de-literatura-2020.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Nobel de Literatura 2020</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-traicion-mortalidad-y-amor.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Traición mortalidad y amor</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/la-elegancia-de-louise-gluck.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">La elegancia de Louise Glück</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-gana-el-premio-nobel-de.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück gana el Premio Nobel de Literatura 2020</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-ascender-lo-hondo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Ascender a lo hondo<br /></a><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-bravura-para-decir-y-para.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Bravura para decir y para callar</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-escribo-sobre-la.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Escribo sobre la mortalidad, fue un shock descubrirla en la infancia<br /></a><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/con-poemas-de-louise-gluck-la.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Con poemas de Louise Glück, la traducción es milimétrica</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-vendimos-mas-libros-de-la.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Vendimos más libros de la Nobel en un cuarto de hora que en 14 años</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/por-un-dolar-conversacion-con-louise.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Por un dólar / Conversación con Louise Glück</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-poeta-de-un-mundo-caido.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Poeta de un mundo caído</a></div><div><br />Poemas<br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-puesta-de-sol.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Puesta de sol</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-la-primera-nieve.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / La primera nieve</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-vestido.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El vestido</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-deseo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El deseo<br /></a><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-dilema-de-telemaco.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El dilema de Telémaco</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-la-terquedad-de-penelope.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / La terquedad de Penélope</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-puerto-deportivo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Puerto deportivo</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-faithful-and-virtuous-night.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Faithful and Virtuos Night</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-espejo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El espejo</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-semejanza-final.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Semejanza final</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-confesion.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Santas</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-lamium.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Lamium</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-espino.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El espino</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-limite.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El límite</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-amante-de-las-flores.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Amante de las flores</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-el-iris-salvaje.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / El iris salvaje</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-la-decision-de-odiseo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / La decisión de Odiseo</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-una-aventura.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Una aventura<br /></a><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-los-ninos-ahogados.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Los niños ahogados</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-todos-los-santos.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Todos los Santos</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-musica-celestial.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Música celestial</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-gretel-en-la-oscuridad.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Gretel en la oscuridad</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-amor-bajo-la-luz-de-la-luna.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Amor bajo la luz de la luna</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-confesion_14.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Confesión</a><br /><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-parabola-de-los-cisnes.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Parábola de los cisnes</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-dia-del-trabajo.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Día del trabajo</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-amor-perdido.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Amor perdido</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-una-novela.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Una novela</a></div><div><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-la-cancion-de-penelope.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / La canción de Penélope</a></div></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-circulo-quemado.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Círculo quemado</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-parabola-de-la-bestia.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Parábola de la bestia</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://triunfo-arciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-nostos.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Nostos</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br /></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;">MESTER DE BREVERÍA</div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="https://eltriunfoarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-dos-mujeres.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Dos mujeres</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br />KISS<br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-meadowlands.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Meadowlands</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br /></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;">Poems<br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-dawn.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Dawn</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-april.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / April</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-mirror-xlisto.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / The Mirror</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-edge.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / The Edge</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-all-hallows.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / All Hallows</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-gretel-in-darkness.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Gretel in the Darkness</a><br /><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-parable-of-swans.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Parable of the Swans</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-love-poem.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Love Poem</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-penelopes-song.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Penelope's Song</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://elarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-nostos.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Nostos</a><br /><br />PESSOA<br /><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-conquista-o-nobel-de.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück conquista O Nobel de Literatura 2020</a><br /><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-o-espelho.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / O espelho</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-confissao.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Confissão</a><br /><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-iris-selvagem.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / A íris selvagem</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-lamium.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Lamium</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="https://totodenadie.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-itaca.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Itaca</a><br /><br />RIMBAUD<br /><a href="http://temporadaenelcielo.blogspot.com/2020/10/la-poetesse-americaine-louise-gluck.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">La poétesse américaine Louise Glück reçoit le Prix Nobel de littérature</a><br /><br />DRAGON</div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="https://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-wins-2020-nobel-prize-in.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel prize in literature</a><br /><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-where-to-start-with.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Where to start with an extraordinary Nobel winner</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-nobel-winner-whose-poems.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / A Nobel Winner Whose Poems Have Abundant Intellect and Deep Feeling</a><br /><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-faithful-and-virtuous.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Faithful and Virtuous Night / Acquainted With the Dark</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-languages-of-myth-and-art.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Languages of Myth and Art and Religion</a><br /><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-glukc-meadowlands-review-by.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Meadowlands / Review by Elizabeth Macklin</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/louise-gluck-meadowlands-odyssey.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Glück / Meadowlands / The Odyssey Revisited</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/for-dollar-louise-gluck-in-conversation.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">For a Dollar / Louise Glück in Conversation</a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2020/10/an-interview-with-louise-gluck.html" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;">An Interview with Louise Glück</a></div><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; 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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I am not jealous</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">of what came before me.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Come with a man</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">on your shoulders,</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">come with a hundred men in your hair,</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">come with a thousand men between your breasts and your feet,</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">come like a river</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">full of drowned men</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">which flows down to the wild sea,</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">to the eternal surf, to Time!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Bring them all</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">to where I am waiting for you;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">we shall always be alone,</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">we shall always be you and I</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">alone on earth,</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">to start our life!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">El Cóndor</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: start;">Translated by Thayne Tuason</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br />Yo soy el cóndor, vuelo<br />sobre ti que caminas<br />y de pronto en un ruedo<br />de viento, pluma, garras,<br />te asalto y te levanto<br />en un ciclón silbante<br />de huracanado frío.<br /><br />I am the condor, I fly<br />above you that walks<br />and suddenly in a ring<br />of wind, pen, claws,<br />I assault you and lift you<br />in a whistling cyclone<br />of hurricane-like cold.<br /><br />Y a mi torre de nieve,<br />a mi guarida negra<br />te llevo y sola vives,<br />y te llenas de plumas<br />y vuelas sobre el mundo,<br />inmóvil, en la altura.<br /><br />And to my tower of snow,<br />to my black den <br />I’ll take you and live alone,<br />and you are filled with feathers<br />and you fly over the world,<br />still, in the height.<br /><br />Hembra cóndor, saltemos<br />sobre esta presa roja,<br />desgarremos la vida<br />que pasa palpitando<br />y levantemos juntos<br />nuestro vuelo salvaje.<br /><br />Female condor, we jump<br />on this red prey,<br />we tear up the life<br />that passes beating<br />and lift together<br />our wild flight.<br /><br />Pablo Neruda </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love, a question</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">has destroyed you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have come back to you</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">from thorny uncertainty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I want you straight as</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the sword or the road.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But you insist</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">on keeping a nook</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">of shadow that I do not want.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My love,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">understand me,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I love all of you,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">from eyes to feet, to toenails,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">inside,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">all the brightness, which you kept.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is I, my love,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">who knocks at your door.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It is not the ghost, it is not</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the one who once stopped</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">at your window.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I knock down the door:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I enter your life:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I come to live in your soul:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">you cannot cope with me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You must open door to door,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">you must obey me,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">you must open your eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">so that I may search in them,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">you must see how I walk</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with heavy steps</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">along all the roads</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that, blind, were waiting for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do not fear,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I am yours,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">but</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I am not the passenger or the beggar,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I am your master,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the one you were waiting for,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and now I enter</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">your life,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">no more to leave it,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">love, love, love,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">but to stay.</span><br />
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Ficcioneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11113302074119512881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277488048470036745.post-91306464002247863012023-09-01T04:42:00.003-05:002023-09-01T04:43:11.012-05:00Robert Graves / Reluctant War Poet<p> <span style="text-align: center;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Ywva8KaKSSltXLi9Vu0xvAJdIn11QzNdOLpYNao4jA7OqTEZgrSaZZWQS0l2T3-ILo5hrYjOh_JgrwHI0FGqYSxmxFzgflhRALUB5Q1ScQDoPUImse1N6NuT_43InUaIUYUxcZ2Cfut6Wb2hGJ2gMI-OMc7TWhqiKbFMuEIn4mg7FYHCkd70FdudgmM/s245/Robert%20Graves%20002.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="245" data-original-width="206" height="583" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Ywva8KaKSSltXLi9Vu0xvAJdIn11QzNdOLpYNao4jA7OqTEZgrSaZZWQS0l2T3-ILo5hrYjOh_JgrwHI0FGqYSxmxFzgflhRALUB5Q1ScQDoPUImse1N6NuT_43InUaIUYUxcZ2Cfut6Wb2hGJ2gMI-OMc7TWhqiKbFMuEIn4mg7FYHCkd70FdudgmM/w490-h583/Robert%20Graves%20002.jpeg" style="cursor: move;" width="490" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert Graves</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><h1 class="mb-3 text-gray font-sanserif text-4xl" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; 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-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">If it wasn't exactly the book that made him famous, the sales of <em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Goodbye to All That</em> certainly made possible Robert Graves' uncontainable and eccentric maturity—complete with the house in Majorca—and the means by which to ensure that his poetic art consisted not just of a "technical mastery of words" but a "particular way of living and thinking." A century after the events this autobiography depicted, it is still easy to see why it sold so well: it was and is an uncommon book. Narrated throughout in Graves' chiseled, ironic prose, it consists of unequal parts abject horror (the young Lieutenant Graves in a shattered wood robbing dead Germans of their great coats so that his men can have blankets, dodging clouds of undissipated gas as he goes), dishy amusements (T.E. Lawrence conspiring with Graves at Oxford to kidnap the Magdalen College deer), and frank sexuality—scandalous sexuality, at the time of publication in 1929.</p></div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">What it doesn't contain much of is poetry, or accounts of the writing of poetry. The reader knows that he is scribbling the stuff throughout, but Graves the autobiographer keeps such business off stage. Despite this, moments essential to Graves' poetry and poetic career can't help but attract attention, like his first encounter with Siegfried Sassoon, who in 1915 was serving as another young lieutenant in his regiment, the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Inasmuch as Graves' account of this conversation involves Sassoon criticizing some drafts of poetry Graves shows him as being too "realistic," and showing Graves some embarrassingly sentimental verses in return, the moment falls squarely into the category of "dishy." Indeed, Sassoon was so upset at gossipy elements of the memoir, which he attributed to a bid for sales, that he was able to have the first edition suppressed, and subsequent editions revised.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Sassoon of course then saw heavy combat and began to write the brutally realistic war poetry that, in death, has remained the principal source of his fame, along with his own fictionalized memoirs. The same thing did not happen to Graves, who, despite almost always being counted among "the war poets," did not depend on membership in that club to maintain his reputation. This may be because Graves went on to be, well, Graves: controversial outsider and author of more than a hundred books including novels, translations, historical inquiries into the foundations of myth and religion, and of course poetry, most of which did not take war as its subject.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">It may also be due to the fact that Graves actively resisted the status of "war poet." Charles Mundye, editor of a new collection of Graves' war poetry, outlines in a long and worthwhile introduction how Graves went so far as to suppress a fair amount of the writing he did in France, stating in 1941 that such work had been "too obviously written during the war poetry boom." Reading through the new edition, what is most striking is the heterogeneity of this young man's work. There are poems here that could easily be mistaken for something written by any other contributor to said boom—conventional war poems, if you will, combining the genre elements of horror and ironic reversal, and heavily influenced by the prevailing Georgian style. Graves' sonnet "Limbo" opens in the trenches, where "After a week spent under raining skies, / In horror, mud and sleeplessness" and where the dead bodies of fellow soldiers are stacked to build up the parapet,</p><blockquote style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Karla, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">…then one night relief comes, and we go<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Miles back into the sunny cornland where<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Babies like tickling, and where tall white horses<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Draw the plough leisurely in quiet courses.</p></blockquote><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">There are poems that have principally to do with poetry, like "Free Verse" and "John Skelton." There are also poems that clearly foreshadow Graves' interest in what he would term the "Old Religion"—the folk tales and rituals of England and Wales (Jack the Giant-killer, Lob, and so on) that, along with other European traditions, he came to believe transmitted the remnants of an Indo-European matriarchal ur-cult. Tied to such mystical concerns is the recurring theme of ghosts, as when, in "The Morning Before the Battle," Graves' narrator encounters his own wraith before him in a garden, and finds the fruit he has been eating "to clotted blood / Was transubstantiate…"; or when, enjoying a hearty dinner well behind the lines, a group of fusiliers is surprised to see their dead comrade Corporal Stare swagger up the street,</p><blockquote style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Karla, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Just like a live man—Corporal Stare!<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Stare! Killed last May at Festubert.<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Caught on patrol near the Boche wire,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Torn horribly by machine-gun fire!<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />He paused, saluted smartly, grinned,<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Then passed away like a puff of wind…</p></blockquote><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">This last poem corresponds to the account in <em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Goodbye to All That</em> of a Private Challoner, whose ghost Graves claims to have seen. ("Corporal Stare" is a clear case of poetic license: much easier to work with, rhythmically and metrically, than "Private Challoner.") Having been killed in May at Festubert, Challoner "looked in at the window" where Graves and his fellow soldiers were enjoying a celebratory meal, "saluted, and passed on," leaving as his only trace a smoking cigarette on the street, as in the poem.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Written more than ten years after the fact, one has to wonder what role the act of writing the poem about Stare had distorted the memory of the actual "encounter" with Challoner—memories, especially those born of trauma and stress, are unstable concoctions, and the creative act has a way of looping back and flavoring the well of recollection with its own inventions. One also wonders whether or not a broader version of this concern had something to do with Graves' resistance to being seen as a "war poet," and his skepticism of the "war poetry boom," as he put it. The way that this school—Sassoon, Owen, Thomas, Winters, and so on—interpreted their own condition had quickly become the accepted way to understand the experience of modern war. It is probably fair to say that it remains the accepted way through to the present, even if later generations of war artists lacked much of the cultural equipment that the original set brought to bear. However true—and there was a lot of truth to it—such a dominant interpretation has a way of being a straitjacket, of containing honest impulses, and twisting them to what readers expect in a "war poem." And in life, let alone in poetry, Robert Graves did not intend to be contained.</p><p><a href="https://freebeacon.com/culture/robert-graves-reluctant-war-poet/">THE WASHINGTON FREE BACON</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGAudChIyRN2Esw9528yHqnVRil3Z7T6Ewh3N7zW4MHh0p6Skz6SBw9GBpold4kQFjrS6sDEA5t0nnUVhKonltkMA5WYPj8kml0-sOyJTBhqkDyvWKy0Cr2J3RPEcBUDALgIELz2pIGhe9W0dukt6p6LaoiOESTvt5JCaSa0cbfnvIGUMsZpx-cOgAdhc/s117/0000%20dragon_circle_un%20cuarto.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="115" data-original-width="117" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGAudChIyRN2Esw9528yHqnVRil3Z7T6Ewh3N7zW4MHh0p6Skz6SBw9GBpold4kQFjrS6sDEA5t0nnUVhKonltkMA5WYPj8kml0-sOyJTBhqkDyvWKy0Cr2J3RPEcBUDALgIELz2pIGhe9W0dukt6p6LaoiOESTvt5JCaSa0cbfnvIGUMsZpx-cOgAdhc/s1600/0000%20dragon_circle_un%20cuarto.gif" width="117" /></a></div>Ficcioneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11113302074119512881noreply@blogger.com0