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' – Pankaj Mishra on The Promised Land

and even the metaphysical

‘we’ must at least try to understand people different from us

Living With Water (MUP

Pattern-book by Éireann Lorsung #Iceland ' – Pankaj Mishra onÂPATTERN BOOK is a collection of poems about family, grief, time, art, visual art, but also poetry and about language itself. It's threaded through with filaments of poems by Emily Dickinson, and makes reference to John Berryman, whose suicide haunted my education on the campus where he died, and to Edna St Vincent Millay, whose modernist sonnets were some of my earliest favourite poems and are models for my own. Across the book, I'm thinking about how