"The Many Guises of Robert Frost"
"Frost’s poetry matched who he was in life: a man who, in Thompson’s words, had 'a tendency to play hide-and-seek around a half-truth,' throwing friends and acquaintances off the scent. More than sixty years after his death, Frost remains a cipher; it’s hard to think of a better-known poet who is more difficult to know. 'I maintain my mystery for no one to pluck the heart out,' Frost once wrote. In that respect, and in so many others, he achieved what he set out to do."
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What Sparks Poetry: Matthew Cooperman on Reading Prose
"How will we spend our days? How will we attend to our rapidly accelerating planet? One habit of response is to read bracing prose, and for me, it’s often “the consolations of philosophy,” to quote an excellent recent example by Alain de Botton. From the Affective Turn to the Queering of Nature, Object Oriented Ontology to Anthropocene Studies, there’s an incredible florescence of philosophical writing going on internationally, as if climate change has triggered all our cells to wake up." |
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