"david.bircumshaw" wrote:
> I always thought that Reverdy was . . . poet with metaphysical longings
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How right you are, David! No wonder you're such a good editor. (. . . except
the metaphysical in Pierre may have been full-blown ~religion~ in him.) Reverdy
lived in a Benedictine monastery for a while, thereafter he and his wife lived
on the grounds of the monastery, and he was an oblate in that religious order.
It's that profile, Hail Mary's and all, that I object to Caws' selections as so
studiously and effectively leaving outside the more aesthetical P.R. image she
fabricated.
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