Eliot and Milash: A Different Way of Looking at Language

There are certain poems that speak to, that speak to existence in a way that the language really captures them. So for instance, when Eliot is talking about in East Coker, he's talking about the frustration of the fact that the words that he has, that he's failing because every time he writes, it's a raid on the inarticulate. Milos Lithuanian poet, whose work I really love, both his poetry and his nonfiction. And so it's just sometimes you will find somebody where their particular work speaks to you. Other times, we don't know that there are all sorts of poems that friends of mine love that do anything with me.

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