"Soul is the oath that he must keep, loyal to this country called Alone."
👏 I love the interview too, great questions Karan. And the prompt… swoon! Marvellous stuff.
Thank you so much for your kind readership, Orna!
Wiman remains one of the absolute best, most morally bracing and instructive writers we have. This is beautiful work.
The solitude is the cost of clarity 🤧😢
(Do you know such a man? I do.)
And this, among the many gorgeous lines,
"Pity the man whom history missed,
who, as the lie like a parasite
ate brain by brain into a single sheep,
remained immune."
Is there any more proof that we need poets now than this poem?
Wow! What a tour de force.
👏 I love the interview too, great questions Karan. And the prompt… swoon! Marvellous stuff.
Thank you so much for your kind readership, Orna!
Wiman remains one of the absolute best, most morally bracing and instructive writers we have. This is beautiful work.
The solitude is the cost of clarity 🤧😢
(Do you know such a man? I do.)
And this, among the many gorgeous lines,
"Pity the man whom history missed,
who, as the lie like a parasite
ate brain by brain into a single sheep,
remained immune."
Is there any more proof that we need poets now than this poem?
Wow! What a tour de force.