Blackmur
Americannoun
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Blackmur famously wrote, “it sometimes seems as if … a cat came at us speaking English.”
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2019
Blackmur and once made a pilgrimage to St. Elizabeths mental hospital in Washington to see Pound, the fascist-friendly poet who had evaded accusations of treason by pleading insanity.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2019
There he began to read and write poetry in earnest, studying with the poet and critic R. P. Blackmur and his teaching assistant, a young poet named John Berryman.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
Each served a feeling of the poet’s that, Blackmur guessed, “did not exist, even in his own mind, until he had put it down in words.”
From The New Yorker ● May 2, 2016
R. P. Blackmur and the expense of criticism.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1975 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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