![]() ![]() And this is a section of The Waste Land that was basically spoken by Eliot's maid, named Ellen Kellend." By reading this passage from the poem, DuPlessis foregrounds the material conditions under which literature is created (or not created) and disseminated (or not disseminated). And sometimes they get absorbed into the writers. There are people who aren't writing or can't write or don't write. ![]() ![]() ![]() DuPlessis continues: "I also wanted to note that there are always people missing whenever there are writers. Because of the price the Eliot estate charges." Instead of reprinting The Waste Land, Poems for the Millenium: Volume One includes a brief commentary contextualizing the poem's relationship to a range of modernist literary movements. DuPlessis explains: " The Waste Land isn't in this anthology. Eliot's The Waste Land during a celebration of the Poems for the Millenium anthologies. In a 1998 recording at the Kelly Writers House, Rachel Blau DuPless reads an excerpt from T.S. The experience of listening to the following recordings was often one of hearing some aspect of the text come loose through the reader's voice instead of hearing the text being inscribed into a fixed state. I was interested in recordings that did more than simply pay homage or celebrate an influence. My final commentary focuses on writers reading the work of other writers. ![]()
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