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Death is everywhere, oppressive and beautiful.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
people like Tranströmer and Ondaatje and Wisława Szymborska are touchstones for me. It’s a long list: George Seferis, Anne Carson, Charles Simic, Sharon Olds, Seamus Heaney: anyone who has found a way to sidestep conventional syntax.
Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things
Alexander • Poseur


If he were to reveal the specific genesis and texture of his personality, if he presented a picture of irreducible individuality, he would lose his ability to be “Walt Whitman, a cosmos”—his “I” would belong to an empirical person rather than constituting a pronoun in which the readers of the future could participate. As a result, while he recounts
... See moreBen Lerner • 10:04
“…the stammerings of an old man who does not seem to have achieved a full psychic victory over an awkward adolescence…”