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Edwin Fussell

Poetry

Autumn 1960

On the Beach at Noon

By Edwin Fussell

Reading the Iliad on the beach as Whitman recommended Blending land, sea, air in splendidly cantilevered lines, pivoted On a spit of sand, taking fire from the everlasting sun overhead […]

Poetry

Summer 1958

Olympic

By Edwin Fussell

The man like a Greek statue throwing a discus Neither thinks of the world as turning nor feels His arm fall in a slowly descending arc As the sun will […]