I've been thinking about Aiken off & on since last week when I made my
off-the-cuff remark about reading him in HS. Not very much in the way of
specific language sticks with me across all the years, but there is some
sense of the poetic there that I may have first found in Aiken. That's
vague, I know. Maybe it's the audacity of some of the poems I'm remembering
now with admiration.
jd
On 10/29/07, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Aiken's Red is the Color of Blood starts out a bit overwrought and I'm
> not sure what's really going on, but it has consistently great poetic
> rhetoric throughout.
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> I can't help wondering if it was influenced by the great trauma of
> Aiken's life: when he was eleven his father killed his mother and
> himself, Aiken finding their bodies seconds later.
>
> Aiken what the one who introduced Pound to Eliot (I mean personally.)
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