"Beastly Clues: T. S. Eliot, Torquemada, and the Modernist Crossword"
"The entangled difficulties of the cryptic crossword, then, provided a uniquely vital opportunity for defamiliarising language: for reheating, as it were, Bushmiller's alphabet soup, and letting the animals run rampant. Whether 'breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land,' as in The Waste Land, or breeding bird-pie fractals, the experimental aspects of literary modernism found extreme expression in cryptics, which took literature and letters alike as their raw materials."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Danielle Badra on Diane Seuss' "Still Life with Turkey"
"All of these cumulative experiences of death and all the ones yet to come and all the deaths that aren't even in my view, they are my beached whale. They are beautiful yet difficult to see up close. The only way I've ever been able to explore is from a safe distance. However, the exploration of death in all of Diane Seuss' poetry collections inspires me to zoom in a little closer, to love 'its saggy neck folds, the rippling, variegated / feathers, the crook of its unbound foot.'" |
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