the bulk of mankind don't complain ...
the bulk of mankind don't complain of early Christian mystics, or authors of other cultures' myths, that their stories, which appear fantastical, are therefore useless because they don't conform to reality. It is understood that their exaggerations conform to another, metaphysical law This is exactly Salamun's strategy. If his metrical compositions seem obtuse or intersect adrift from our planet's surface, this is because they are utterances of a different kind from what we might wait for of contemporary poetry. His be of importance tos are not simply with the ultimate parts of language, or with image, or with different
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