Illuminations

This page is dedicated to poetry and other miscellaneous posts.

Into my heart an air that kills

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February 11, 2024
Into my heart an air that kills

Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A.E. Housman - A Shropshire Lad XL.

The Letters of Ezra Pound and E. E. Cummings

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October 16, 2023
The Letters of Ezra Pound and E. E. Cummings

The letter is dead. Email killed the epistler. And yet, for a thousand years, and a thousand years more, the letter was the pre-eminent form of literature. We all know what a letter does; but what is it? What purpose does it serve? What can we take from letter collections? A letter is a lattice of cross-purposes. The sender and receiver engaged in the a…