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I replied:Richard, this is indeed a gift and a treasure. What is most exciting to me is the originality of the form, or perhaps not the form but the tone. Yes, that’s it: the freshness of the tone in offering the cherished, unchanging gift. Perhaps that’s always the poet’s challenge: to show us the old Truths in a way that we can see them anew. And you’ve done that with the beautiful simplicity of which Eliot wrote: (“a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.”) Ah, c’est bien quelque chose de belle, mon vieux!I want to read and reread what you’ve written, and also hear the actual music. Such a fine thing! Bless, once again, your heart. And (as John Duffey used to say in response to a good “hand of applause”) all your vital organs. |
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