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