"The Secret History of T. S. Eliot’s Muse"
"Without her side of the correspondence, it is impossible to know why Hale loved Eliot—or what her love looked like. Hale’s voice comes to us only in whispers—heard, or half-heard, between the lines of Eliot’s poems, in the rustling leaves of the archive."
via THE NEW YORKER |
|
|
| | Poetry Daily stands with the Black community.
We oppose racism, oppression, and police brutality.
We will continue to amplify diverse voices in the poetry world.
Black Lives Matter. |
|
What Sparks Poetry:
Taije Silverman on "The Meteor"
“'The Meteor' starts in the far past, with a blackout: 'tutto annerò.' Annerò—that’s the past remote, a tense that doesn't exist in English. It indicates a past so far past that the present can’t touch it. But Pascoli means to infiltrate, undermine it—which is part of what compels me about the poem. It’s what compels me about translation, too: this vibrant failure of equivalence that brings the past into the present and present into the past." |
|
|
|
|
|
|
