@stoneandthestar Me too. It makes sense to miss him. He was an important surviving link to that generation of poets you're talking about. Of course we have Muldoon and Ormsby from that Northern Irish cohort. But still.
@victoriamoul@nguyenhdi I remember once dipping into Mark Van Doren's book from 1920 which was meant to make the case for 'the greatest neglected English poet'.
@msjlindsay For the less malicious lot, there must be something consolatory about the belief that clarity (at its worst, definitions, categories, truth claims, knowledge) ought to be avoided. They can't think straight and it's reassuring to admonish others for saying it's possible.
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