----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 11:58 AM Subject: Re: "Remote Cloister" > Ah, a kind of spiritual recessions/depression, Fred? > > Not to mention, 'our high, blind windows,' as a take on a kind of poetry > also losing its 'worth' now? Just wondering.... > > The tone feels a bit different than usual, too. > > Doug Some buried references to poetry - high windows, and the wasteland, even "letting go" famous in Dickinson. But poets aren't the only addressees/subjects here; not only poets are among the Humiliated.