Your Monday poem: History by Robert Lowell theartdivas.com/2017/08/histor
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And reposting yesterday's poem: Suicide of a Moderate Dictator by Elizabeth Bishop theartdivas.com/2017/08/suicid
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Here's another poem by Robert Lowell: Man and Wife theartdivas.com/2017/02/man-an
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Thank you. Lowell in his sort-of-imperial phase. Did you ever read the introduction he wrote to one of those sonnet volumes?
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I'm serious. Haven't been able to re-find it but it argues for always choosing the slant word rather than the natural one. Mini-manifesto.
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