“I see at last that all the knowledge//I wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me—“ -Randall Jarrell. Thanks for pointing me to this beautiful poem 🧭
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Ha. I just sent her a thank you for doing so. Amazing poem.
💜thank you for reading Jarrell’s 90 North—it’s so unrelenting— reminds me of Hopkins’ terrible sonnets; there are times one wants to hear the poet finding a way through & there are times one wants to hear, uh, no
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