Conrad Aiken

Oct 6, 2024 | buttondown.com | Anne Sexton |Conrad Aiken |W. H. Auden |William Wordsworth

October 6, 2024 Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I write about what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid subscribers. BECOME A PAID SUBSCRIBERQuite early in my life, at seventeen, I set myself the task of memorizing one hundred poems. I was in the first graduating class of a small, weird school, where they allowed us to do “senior projects.” That was mine.

Jun 27, 2024 | dialnet.unirioja.es | Conrad Aiken

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May 29, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Conrad Aiken

Absolute zero: the locust sings: summer’s caught in eternity’s rings: the rock explodes, the planet dies, we shovel up our verities. The razor rasps across the face and in the glass our fleeting race lit by infinity’s lightning wink under the thunder tries to think.