Professor Kyle
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Thanks to @apfel_sarah I know it's World Poetry Day! How about sharing some of your favorite poems? You could link, thread, or screenshot (if the latter, please use alt text! 🙂).
10:00 PM - Mar 20, 2024
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Thee NW Mankiller Magpie
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In response to Professor Kyle.
He was a traitor, a racist, an anti-Semite and a fascist, but "The Pisan Cantos" by Ezra Pound are amazing, and this bit is my favorite.
12:28 AM - Mar 21, 2024
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hmmwrites (Heather's version)
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Yeah, I kind of hate-read his poems at this point. Because he was awful, but damn, some of his writing was so good...
In response to Thee NW Mankiller Magpie.
12:32 AM - Mar 21, 2024
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Thee NW Mankiller Magpie
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In response to hmmwrites (Heather's version).
I remind myself that talent will not redeem someone, especially if they never reach for it. Pound was an artist--and an unrepetant fascist, racist, anti-Semite.
06:36 PM - Mar 21, 2024
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hmmwrites (Heather's version)
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In response to Thee NW Mankiller Magpie.
Yeah no. No redemption there. Just bafflement that someone with such a small, shrunken heart could have written so well.
06:38 PM - Mar 21, 2024
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Thee NW Mankiller Magpie
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In response to hmmwrites (Heather's version).
There are many I just can't read, but the ones I do either make me laugh (like his "Winter is icumen in") or touch my heart, like this one. An incredible poet with an immoral, shriveled soul - how the hell could that happen . . .
12:44 AM - Mar 21, 2024
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hmmwrites (Heather's version)
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In response to Thee NW Mankiller Magpie.
People are...complex, to say the least.
12:55 AM - Mar 21, 2024
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