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A SPORADICALLY-PUBLISHED "MAGAZINE" OF POETRY AND POETICS
Christopher W. Alexander and Linda Russo, eds.

ISSUE 7
Last Updated: 15 April 2005

View from the Narrows: << Postcard 43 >>
Matthias Regan

Editor's Transcription

Letter # 41 (Broken off)

With a leap (she said it was an
arabesque
I made, off the porch, the night of the
St. Valentine's Day'sstorm, into
the snow.
Nor did she fail of course to meake
the point
what a sight I was the size I am all
over the storm
trying to be graceful Or was it? She hadn't seen me
in 19 years

[around the circumference of the card:]
It is often said, inconsiderately, that
very original writers always fail in
popularity - that such and such persons
are too
original to
be comprehend
ed by the mass. "Too peculiar,"
should be the phrase, "too idiosyncratic." It is, in fact, the
excitable, undisciplined and child-
like popular mind which most keenly feels the
original.
- Poe

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