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My Baudelaire Summer
“How difficult it is to do as one ought every day.”
 • Mason Currey
Petrarch got up every morning at midnight
“I regard sleep as a kind of death, my bed as a tomb.”
 • Mason Currey
Sharon Olds’s huge archive of thinking and feeling
“Clouds of meaning were rolling this way and that.”
 • Mason Currey
Louise Glück on writer’s block
“I think everything good in my own work I owe to endurance.”
 • Mason Currey
Making art is like setting a trap
Philip Larkin on constructing “the device”
 • Mason Currey
Henri Cole on the enemies within
And why they’re a gift
 • Mason Currey
Alice Notley on getting things to come easily
Here’s the secret, if you can bear it
 • Mason Currey
Bernadette Mayer will give you ideas
On the late American poet’s irrepressible confident weirdness
 • Mason Currey
Robert Graves’s writing paradise
A visit to the English poet and novelist’s home in Majorca
 • Mason Currey
“A strange empty day”
From May Sarton’s journals—plus, more on paid newsletters
 • Mason Currey
Alexander Pope’s paid subscription model
And my thoughts about adopting one for this newsletter
 • Mason Currey
Mary Ruefle does not own a computer
“If you asked me to email you a poem, I couldn’t.”
 • Mason Currey
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