Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Great Regulars: Yet this historical background

hardly does justice to the freshness of the poem as we read it right now--here, in the timeless present. The crooked man leaps off the page into our imagination, a lopsided body, wonky nose, and bandy legs, zig-zagging hither and thither with his arms akimbo.

from Christopher Nield: The Epoch Times: The Antidote--Classic Poetry for Modern Life: A reading of 'There Was a Crooked Man'

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