Neglected and Loved Treasures of Ancient and Modern Literature
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| Cover of Sister Outsider Audre Lorde Crossing Press, 1984 via Wikimedia Commons, Fair use |
I was revising too much instead of writing new poems.
[...] poetry is not Play-Doh. You can’t take a poem and keep reforming it. It is itself, and you have to know how to cut it. And if there’s something else you want to say, that’s fine.
The eternal virtues of literature are sincerity, clarity, breadth, force, and subtlety.— Sir Walter Raleigh (the literary critic, not the Elizabethan courtier), in Romance
A reporter of German left-wing newspaper taz visits GDR-built apartment building blocks with a man who's trained as a visitor for elderly people who feel alone.
It's not a particularly dramatic subject on the face of it -- more a picture of everyday survival. But it is important and full of poignant insights. For example, that people suffer more from being abandoned by family who are still alive, than from losing all of their family due to death.
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