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The recanonization of Delmore will happen someday.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 4 March 2021 23:01 (three years ago) link

I don't know that I want that, but glad for comments, thanks.

In the middle of spinning tales of the bardo and pandemic and what's over and in the Hudson River outside her studio window and tai chai and stuff in today's (now gone from YouTube, officially, but prob archived somewhere) Norton Lecture (AKA perfectly paced multi-media recurring accruing thematic groove thang, as usual), Laurie Anderson skated through "The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me," which she seems to know very well--"wanting sleep and candy", among other things: says it's about having a body, which makes sense, though I'd always thought "depression" (also she mentione deciding one morning in her mid-twenties to stay in bed til she thought of a good reason to get up: "It took months," although she was also still teaching night school)--play it one more time, Del:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42637/the-heavy-bear-who-goes-with-me

dow, Friday, 5 March 2021 05:26 (three years ago) link


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