"It is . . . the utterance of clever people in despair, or hovering upon the brink of that precipice. . . . [T]heir lamentation [is] . . . 'In the midst of this desolation, give me at least one intelligence to converse with.'"
- Ezra Pound, on the poetry of Marianne Moore and Mina Loy, 1918
From Startles
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I was corresponding with a fellow poet recently about how difficult it is
to write now (right now); there are so many pressures from the outside,
that t...
1 week ago
