#CharlesBaxter

Letter From Minnesota: “Mad Means Something” The greatest poem ever written about Minneapolis is a curse on the city. It‘s by James Wright, who wrote “The Minneapolis Poem” and published it in Shall We Gather at the River in 1968. He hated th…

I feel like I've been on that bus, as described here. That sense of solidarity, the feeling you didn't have until you boarded that bus.
Beautiful.
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Letter From #Minnesota:
“Mad Means Something”
#CharlesBaxter on the Rage of the #Poet, and Its #Power
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