March 2009
14 posts
“Be with me, words, a little longer; you have given me my quitclaim in the sun, sealed shut my adolescent wounds, made light of grownup troubles, turned to my advantage what in most lives would be pure deficit, and formed, of those I loved, more solid ghosts.”
John Updike, from “Spirit of ‘76”, The New Yorker.
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For half a century
poetry was
a solemn fool’s paradise.
Until I came along...
– Nicanor Parra, from Natasha Wimmer’s introduction to The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño