![]() ![]() It descends into ‘depths’ that literary scholars so often insist are the domain of ‘LITERATURE,’ inaccessible to all but literary scholars who speak in an abstruse, specialized language that makes most of us feel small and insufficient and not capable of actually understanding what writers try to speak about. But this letter, about Sappho, though it begins comprehensibly enough, eventually goes down what I would call a worm-hole. For poems matter, they speak to us of important things that we need to know. ![]() “I try to write about poems in ‘ordinary’ language,” I said, referring to my intent of making poems accessible - not, of course, just trite, easy-to-understand messages - so that I can allow readers to enter into poems. ![]() I spoke with some friends about this letter yesterday, saying I had reservations about sending it. ![]()
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