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Charles Wright, from Appalachia

Pensive melancholy today from Franz Wright, yet another Pulitzer
Prize-winner and Salmagundi contributor. Here’s “A Successful Day” from
Issue #144-145 of 2004-05. ‪

Louise Gluck, from “Vespers” in The Wild Iris

We must reply to the absence of God, who is Love, by our own absence and love.

Simone Weil, Notebook

Simon Critchley on Wallace Stevens’s poetic thesis: ‘God is dead, therefore I am. The problem is that it is not at all clear who I am’ (Critchley 2005: 43).

And J. Hillis Miller: ‘God is dead, therefore I am. But I am nothing. I am nothing because I have nothing, nothing but awareness of the barrenness within and without’ (1990: 35).