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A Note Before the First. An index of Subjects. The subjects: 1: Kenneth Rexroth’s Classics Revisited. 2: The Tale of Genji. 3: The poetry of Daniel Huws. 4: The novels of Jonis Agee. 5: Five (or twelve) great mysteries. 6: The literature of the Blasket Islands. 7: Zen: Shunryū Suzuki, Robert Aitken, R.H. Blyth, and Brian Victoria’s Zen At War. 8: The letters of Van Gogh, Keats, Helene Hanff, and the Shaw-Terry correspondence. 9: The journals of Pepys, Thoreau and Dorothy Wor
#290: AT THE SILVER RIVER’S EDGE. In her book Rapture, Carol Ann Duffy gives us a moving and finely observed account of a love affair, from start—”Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head”—to finish (the last verse is called “Over.”) It’s not a novel-in-verse: there are no background shots, no addresses, no names of restaurants. The whole is rendered instead in emotional detail: the startlement of intense pleasure, the sudden alertness to color and weather,
