February 24, 2022
“History is approaching a speechless end,
As Henry Adams said. Adams was right.”
— John Berryman, “The Moon and the Night and the Men”
I remember reading Berryman’s poem in 1969 and thinking that it met Pound’s demand for “news that stays news.”
http://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/jb2-moon.htm
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