Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives

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"What I Do Is Me: For That I Came"
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"What I Do Is Me: For That I Came"

Before Sammy Davis, Jr., there was Gerard Manley Hopkins.

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Ron Hogan
Dec 23, 2019
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(Thanks to Emm Roy for permission to use her inspirational artwork!)

Last spring, I mentioned in one of these newsletters that I’d witnessed a curious synchronicity, in which two books that I’d been reading both happened to mention Rilke’s “Archaic Torso of Apollo.” Well, it happened again last week, except this time the books both invoked Gerard Manley …

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