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From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: which poet would you be + Jenniffer Lesh
> This is interesting. I'm not sure how woman-hating Stevens was, but what
> does come across to me is a certain coldness towards people, despite the
> aesthetic beauty that can be there. I am aware that my seeing, feeling etc
> of the poems maybe partly preticated on my being male, so I might miss
> things that a woman might see as staringly obvious.
>
> I tend to annoyed with Stevens about the political stuff, y'know, fan of
> Mussolini etc, and also the crap he wrote in his first book, oh yeah, too,
> the iambics, di-dum, dee-dumb.
>
> Drone.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
>
He loved his mother. Somewhat hidden but very moving bit about her death in
"The Auroras of Autumn" - "The necklace is a carving, not a kiss."
"Upstairs, the windows will be lighted, not the rooms."
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