Your Monday poem: History by Robert Lowell theartdivas.com/2017/08/histor
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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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I should be less lazy and just go to the library and find it.
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I won't be able to help you much there. Go to the library!
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Yup. Fair enough. "Clock-white, still friendly to the earth." There's the good stuff.
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