“This Scribe, My Hand” The hands of poet Ben Belitt, writing, c. 2001, photo by Emma Dodge Hanson
This inimitable and under-appreciated writer published some of his most affecting later poems in Salmagundi, including an elegaic masterpiece written in communion with Keats entitled “This Scribe, My Hand” (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/…/48488/this-scribe-my-hand) about which G. Singh wrote an essay (https://tinyurl.com/u99w8qc) in the special feature devoted to Belitt’s work in Salmagundi #87 (Summer 1990).
“This Scribe, My Hand” The hands of poet Ben Belitt, writing, c. 2001, photo by Emma Dodge Hanson
This inimitable and under-appreciated writer published some of his most affecting later poems in Salmagundi, including an elegaic masterpiece written in communion with Keats entitled “This Scribe, My Hand” (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/…/48488/this-scribe-my-hand) about which G. Singh wrote an essay (https://tinyurl.com/u99w8qc) in the special feature devoted to Belitt’s work in Salmagundi #87 (Summer 1990).
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“This Scribe, My Hand” The hands of poet Ben Belitt, writing, c. 2001, photo by Emma Dodge Hanson
This inimitable and under-appreciated writer published some of his most affecting later poems in Salmagundi, including an elegaic masterpiece written in communion with Keats entitled “This Scribe, My Hand” (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/…/48488/this-scribe-my-hand) about which G. Singh wrote an essay (https://tinyurl.com/u99w8qc) in the special feature devoted to Belitt’s work in Salmagundi #87 (Summer 1990).
Translation: a carrying over but also a blundering through, a desire, perhaps a little feral, to get hold of what you don’t possess and transform it into something you can use, something that’s yours. Listen in to Episode 1 of Salmagundi’s Podcast “SALon” …
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