Stevens
Cincinnati, 8/22/2010
    The greatest poverty is not to live
    In a physical world. . . .
    Wallace Stevens, "Esthetique du Mal"
Are we not then terribly poor? Is not America by this standard an underdeveloped, indeed a Third World, nation? We are the Ethiopians of embodiment, the Haitians of incarnation.
 
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