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• Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
• It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.
• Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than…
• I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a…
• I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking
• There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of…
• Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children.…
• Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
• A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines…

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