04-14-2021, 12:30 AM
I'm a slow reader. I read a few more of Tate's poems at the beginning of his Collected Poems. I found them impressively dense and different from the other Modernists (?), different enough to be worth reading more.
Then I decided to read about Tate. He was a avowed white supremacist. He edited poetry for a magazine that supported Hitler and Mussolini, but published plenty of anti-fascist poems, so...... Which brings up the issue, at least for recently deceased poets, of their lives vs. their works. I'm still going to read more Tate.
That's all I guess. I won't talk to myself anymore.
Then I decided to read about Tate. He was a avowed white supremacist. He edited poetry for a magazine that supported Hitler and Mussolini, but published plenty of anti-fascist poems, so...... Which brings up the issue, at least for recently deceased poets, of their lives vs. their works. I'm still going to read more Tate.
That's all I guess. I won't talk to myself anymore.