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name outweighs reality
Mable 2022-04-09 08:01:02
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Katherine Joyce: He wrote some beautiful verses.
Alex Joyce: I'll buy his books.
Katherine Joyce: He never published them. You think a young poet can find a publisher?
Alex Joyce: So how do you know them?
Katherine Joyce: He would read to me, and I copied many of them down. "Temple of the spirit. No longer bodies, but pure, ascetic images, compare to which thought itself becomes leaden, opaque, heavy." He wrote those verses here in Italy, during the war.
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Alex Joyce: Where did we meet him?
Katherine Joyce: At the Smith's house.
Alex Joyce: Was he an attorney?
Katherine Joyce: No. No. A poet. He was slender, blond, tall, so delicate and romantic.