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So many of us!
Nudgers and shoversIn spite of ourselves.Our kind multiplies:We shall by morningInherit the earth.Our foot’s in the door. –“Mushrooms” by Sylvia Plath I reread Plath’s “Mushrooms” this week (plus a fun little article about it) as I nudged and shoved through a pile of deadlines. This included hurriedly writing a synopsis of my novel Grievous so…
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Reading T. S. Eliot’s tarot cards
I was talking to my British and Irish poetry class about the “wicked pack of cards” Madame Sosostris wields in “The Waste Land” when one person said, “There should be a Modernist Poets tarot deck.” My brain exploded: H. D. as The Star, Pound as The Emperor, Sassoon as the Nine of Wands, maybe Yeats…