as [Henri] Cole's does, on directness and the avoidance of comforting illusions and consolations inevitably raises questions about the relation between poetry and truth. Given the opacity of our own inner lives and the difficulty of knowing ourselves, the risk of adopting the guise of the truth teller is that one is liable to lose sight of the fact that it is, in the end, a guise, though often a necessary one. from The Nation: Henri Cole: The Art of Violent Concision
also The Nation: Three Poems
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