The poem in the Poetry newsletter today was about Simone Weil.
Thank you for this; I am filing it away in my folder of ghost poems.
(Although -- is any thirst of the classical chaste? Mine certainly isn't, though it may be pure.)
The phrasing suggested to me a marble sculpture without its paint, although I agree that everyone I know thirsts more like Alexander for Hephaistion.
The page includes a recording of Waldrep reading the poem, but he uses Poet Voice, and I cannot recommend it. I turned it off because it was making me like the poem less.
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Date: 2024-08-25 01:54 am (UTC)Thank you for this; I am filing it away in my folder of ghost poems.
(Although -- is any thirst of the classical chaste? Mine certainly isn't, though it may be pure.)
The phrasing suggested to me a marble sculpture without its paint, although I agree that everyone I know thirsts more like Alexander for Hephaistion.
The page includes a recording of Waldrep reading the poem, but he uses Poet Voice, and I cannot recommend it. I turned it off because it was making me like the poem less.
Ow.
(Which is Poet Voice?)