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Thursday, November 15th, 2007

BEOWULF RETURNS IN THE SYMBOLIC AGE

If ever there were a time for a poem about a single man who hangs out in the rather homo-erotic company of other warriors full time, engages in three epic battles with three opponents — a fatherless son, his husbandless-mother, and a dragon –has the history of the world engraved onto the hilt of a […]

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Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Words as bodies

This is one of my favorite poems, and when I was reading it the other day I realized all the connections between words and bodies.  -Sarah Banschbach
Meditation at Lagunitas, by Robert Hass, 1987
All the new thinking is about loss.
In this it resembles all the old thinking.
The idea, for example, that each particular erases
the luminous clarity […]

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