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There’s a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can’t stand them.

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One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn’t mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the ‘Iliad,’ crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it’s a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next.

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April 21, 2024

One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn’t mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the ‘Iliad,’ crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it’s a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next.

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April 21, 2024

I believe the poet shouldn’t be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.

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