/lit/ - Literature

>>14805225
>be me
>read it
>understood some stanzas
>enjoyed some pages but not the whole book
>gave it away
the idea is great, but shows limitations in terms of what poetry is supposed to do in terms of beauty and truth.

tl;dr: it's a meme

Ernest Hemingway, unironically.

>What gives Hemingway’s flirtation with gender reversal a special pathos is his relationship with his much loved son Gregory, an intermittent cross-dresser who had a sex-change operation at the age of sixty-three and died using the name Gloria. At one point, Hemingway came upon the boy, whom he called Giggy, trying on his mother’s stockings and dress in a family bedroom in Cuba, and later said to him, “We come from a strange tribe, you and I.” He doubtless saw in this boy, his favorite, ambiguities that he could never confess, and it made him by turns both enraged and, oddly, touchingly, empathetic.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/03/hemingway-the-sensualist

>"Ezra taught me to distrust adjectives."

straight from my cringe compilation