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Saturday, June 07, 2008

Hemingway as Poet?

Hemingway scribbled two poems - unpublishable at the time because of their rudeness - in the 1925 first edition of In Our Time for his lifelong friend and drinking buddy Jack Cowles. The volume's current owner, Mark Hime, said: "We're not talking TS Eliot here."
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ~ Novalis

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