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NICO

and the essence of poetry

A much shorter version of this essay was published in the Dublin Review of Books, February 2021

Nico in 1956
Photo by Herbert Tobias

A German Requiem
The Land of Dreams
Fallen Empires
The essence of poetry

The full text can be downloaded as a PDF here

Homage to Albert Gleizes, Politics and Theology, Poems

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