Anselm, I dont know what the Listmate who posted these words meant
by them : I can only think of e.p's own line, "My errors and my wrecks lie
all about me." [I _think_ are the actual words; I always want them to mean
(as well), "oh, those errors and wrecks of mine? they all lie about me."]
Incidentally, I thought the gesture of bringing the rose from e.p's grave
to drop in Dorn's, charming but unDornian. I dont think this kind of
symbolism meant much to him, did it ? No harm in it, though. They were
both troubadors, upon occasion.
About e.p I dont recall ever speaking with Ed. I imagine he admired e.p for
his ability to resist the mandarins & even to make a dent in their
complacency, and to "come off it" as so often in the Pisan cantos.....and
likely deplored his elitism insofar as it drove e.p to a reliance on a
tradition that never was intended to serve what is now so rotely denoted
the "underclass." He found e.p's anti-semitism objectionable, I suppose?
Anyway, so much for what I can determine about "wrecker." (and that e.p
"wrecked" what he could in the lazy poetics around him.) "Sad" suggests his
sense at the end of his life, that he had fucked up and might atone only
thru silence.
As though death wouldnt take care of that for him, eventually.
Always a pleasure to see your name among the incoming missives (I had
almost typed "missiles.")
David
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