"Living as I do, phone pressed against my body most of the day, it’s strange to me how tragedy, especially, can feel farther and farther away. It’s so easy to vacillate between feeling overly affected and totally numb. How, I keep wondering, did Louise Glück write a poem inside and outside of the massiveness of 9/11, a poem that migrates, necessarily, between the body and the mind, a poem moved by unanswerable questions, in which repetition is as likely to halt as it is to heal?" |
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"People still have things to say about Moby-Dick, Herman Melville's 1851 novel about Captain Ahab's obsessive and dangerous hunt for a great white whale. 'I think that Moby-Dick helps us to understand who we are as Americans, and who we might be — for better or worse,' said Elizabeth Schultz, the co-editor of a new poetry anthology called After Moby-Dick."
via KCUR |
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