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Citing a line from Elizabeth
BishopThe bight is littered with old correspondencesScott Cairns avers:
So, also, is my mind. Indeed,
it was Bishop's The Bightencountered late in his undergraduate
educationthat may have first alerted Cairns to one, key, salutary fact of
literary history: virtually every work written over the centuries has been to
some degree a responsive text, something of an epistolary response to what the
writer beholdsthe landscape, the heavens, oras in most casesanother prior
text.
In
addition to volumes by Coleridge, Keats, Bisho...
Citing a line from Elizabeth
BishopThe bight is littered with old correspondencesScott Cairns avers:
So, also, is my mind.
Indeed, it was Bishop's The Bightencountered late in his undergraduate educationthat may have first alerted Cairns to one, key, salutary fact of literary history: virtually every work written over the centuries has been to some degree a responsive text, something of an epistolary response to what the writer beholdsthe landscape, the heavens, oras in most casesanother prior text.
In addition to volumes by Coleridge, Keats, Bishop, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, and Auden, Cairns keeps collections by his beloved GreeksKavafy, Elytis, and Seferison his writing desk. In corresponding with them, he engages some of the profound and recurring themes of his distinguished career: the mystery of creation (and its absent/present Creator), the sense that every wordevery termproves to be less a terminus than a point of departure, and a vision of inexhaustible Love transcending all apparent limits, all neat binaries, including that of heaven and hell. These poets have served as his mentors, his provocateurs, andin his mind at leasthis primary audience.
Correspondence with My Greeks is a work at once deeply human and hauntingly transcendent, the full flowering of the poet's lifelong devotion to the generative power of the word.
Indeed, it was Bishop's The Bightencountered late in his undergraduate educationthat may have first alerted Cairns to one, key, salutary fact of literary history: virtually every work written over the centuries has been to some degree a responsive text, something of an epistolary response to what the writer beholdsthe landscape, the heavens, oras in most casesanother prior text.
In addition to volumes by Coleridge, Keats, Bishop, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, and Auden, Cairns keeps collections by his beloved GreeksKavafy, Elytis, and Seferison his writing desk. In corresponding with them, he engages some of the profound and recurring themes of his distinguished career: the mystery of creation (and its absent/present Creator), the sense that every wordevery termproves to be less a terminus than a point of departure, and a vision of inexhaustible Love transcending all apparent limits, all neat binaries, including that of heaven and hell. These poets have served as his mentors, his provocateurs, andin his mind at leasthis primary audience.
Correspondence with My Greeks is a work at once deeply human and hauntingly transcendent, the full flowering of the poet's lifelong devotion to the generative power of the word.
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