Greg Delanty
Greg Delanty's latest book of poems is Book Seventeen from LSU Pres. Other recent books are Loosestrife (Fomite Press), The Word Exchange, Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (WW Norton), and his Collected Poems 1986-2006 (Oxford Poets--Carcanet Press). He has received many awards, most recently a Guggenheim for poetry. He is Poet in Residence at Saint Michael’s College, Vermont. “White Spirits” originally appeared in Shenandoah 46/2.
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White Spirits
In the beginning, typography was denounced as “The Black Art.” Though why or by whom I can’t exactly say. Perhaps it had to do with an invention’s magic air, or the fear that the spread of the word would undo …