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Psalmist of the Gap

  • Peter Cole--The New York Review of Books
  • published date: 2025-10-09 11:00:00 UTC

Texts that are inertly of their time stay there: those which brush up unstintingly against historical constraints are the ones we keep with us, generation after generation. —Edward Said Political poems lead strange lives. More often than not they die on the v…

Texts that are inertly of their time stay there: those which brush up unstintingly against historical constraints are the ones we keep with us, generation after generation. —Edward Said 1. Politic… [+40732 chars]