{"id":135304,"date":"2019-04-09T13:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=135304"},"modified":"2019-04-09T12:15:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T16:15:28","slug":"redux-the-geography-of-self-and-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/09\/redux-the-geography-of-self-and-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: The Geography of Self and Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every week, the editors of <\/em>The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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T.\u2009S. Eliot. Sketch by D. Cammell, 1959.<\/p><\/div>\n

In this week\u2019s Redux, we\u2019re celebrating National Poetry Month. Read our first-ever Art of Poetry interview<\/a>, with T.\u2009S. Eliot, as well as Rita Dove\u2019s poem \u201cStargazing<\/a>\u201d and Robert Creeley\u2019s poem \u201cThe Mountains in the Desert<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not subscribe to read the entire archive<\/a>? You\u2019ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re holding a special National Poetry Month event<\/a> in collaboration with the 92Y Poetry Center on Monday, April 29, featuring The Paris Review<\/em>\u2019s guest poetry editors\u2014Henri Cole, Shane McCrae, Monica Youn, and Vijay Seshadri\u2014and the poets Jericho Brown, Lawrence Joseph, Donika Kelly, and Evie Shockley. We hope to see you there!<\/p>\n

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T.\u2009S. Eliot, The Art of Poetry No. 1<\/a>
\nIssue no. 21 (Spring\u2013Summer 1959)<\/em><\/p>\n

As a rule, with me an unfinished thing is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It\u2019s better, if there\u2019s something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it\u2019s in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Stargazing<\/a>
\nBy Rita Dove
\nIssue no. 103 (Summer 1987)<\/em><\/p>\n

The sky is not a glass of anything;
\nit winks, it\u2019s a parable,
\nthe kind your mother told whenever
\nyou\u2019d been \u201cwicked\u201d\u2014intense
\nbut vague. The night sky swerves
\nto its seat, the show begins \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Mountains in the Desert<\/a>
\nBy Robert Creeley
\nIssue no. 29 (Winter\u2013Spring 1963)<\/em><\/p>\n

The mountains blue now
\nat the back of my head,
\nsuch geography of self and soul
\nbrought to such limit of sight \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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If you like what you read,\u00a0get a year of<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review\u2014four new issues, plus instant access to everything we\u2019ve ever published.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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