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Cavafy: ‘Mourning the Memory, the Aura of Our Days’

January 09, 2022 by DAVID M KATZ in Cavafy, William Butler Yeats, W.H. Auden

Cavafy’s “Trojans" does a good job of echoing our current sense of dread.

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January 09, 2022 /DAVID M KATZ
Cavafy, William Butler Yeats, W.H. Auden
Cavafy, William Butler Yeats, W.H. Auden
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Kenneth Koch: The Poem Writes Itself

December 26, 2021 by DAVID M KATZ in Kenneth Koch

Kenneth Koch, I imagine, would have appreciated how his poem’s structure almost enables it to write itself. It’s a player piano of a poem.

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December 26, 2021 /DAVID M KATZ
Kenneth Koch
Kenneth Koch
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