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Eliot’s Darker Side, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
February 10, 2014
On the Shelf
Eliot in 1934, photographed by Lady Ottoline Morrell.
“Everyone wants to be clever—it’s hard to give up that side and go blindly for stupidity. But even more frightening was the fact that it was so easy … I guess I have a talent for humiliation.”
An interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard
.
On
the shortlist for Britain’s new Folio Prize
, open to all English-language writers: Rachel Kushner, Anne Carson, Sergio de la Pava, George Saunders, and more.
Since T. S. Eliot has been lionized as Britain’s favorite poet, let’s all take a step back and remember: he was one of the most “
daemonic poets who ever lived
.”
“O where are they now, your harridan nuns / who thumped on young heads with a metal thimble / and punished with rulers your upturned palms”:
RIP Pulitzer-winning poet Maxine Kumin
, who died last week, at eighty-eight.
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