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In a Poem, Just Who Is ‘the Speaker,’ Anyway?
  + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Elisa Gabbert | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The pages of “A Little White Shadow,” by Mary Ruefle, house a lyric “I” — the ghost voice that emerges so often from what we call a poem. Yet the I belonged first to another book, a Christian text of the same name published in 1890, by Emily Malbone Morgan. On another page, we read (can I say Ruefle writes? This method of finding an I out there, already typed, to identify with, seems to me not much different from typing an I. An I on the page is abstract, symbolic, and not the same I as in speech, which in itself is not the same I as the I in the mind.
Persons: Mary Ruefle, Emily Malbone Morgan, Ruefle “, Ruefle
Some of the Books That Hernan Diaz Owns Surprise Even Him
  + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
Scott, Deborah Eisenberg, Paul Yoon, Ottessa Moshfegh, Michael Ondaatje, Louise Erdrich, Colson Whitehead, Sigrid Nunez, Jean Strouse, Lorrie Moore. The novel contains four different books, written by different fictional authors in disparate genres and styles. “Trust” closes with a personal diary that is also a sort of a prose poem and a love letter to modernism. While writing this, I read and revisited authors as different as Jean Rhys, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Dawn Powell, Theodor Adorno and Gertrude Stein. Wodehouse section of my library and can report that I’ve read 29 of his books.
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