Marginalia Poems

Dostoevsky’s New Testament

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John Butler Yeats’, on his Son W.B. Yeats’ Poem The Wanderings of Oisin

but is not Niam (Niambh) pronounced
as Neev’? as one syllable?
Not “Nee-am?”*

*In the revised manuscript, preceding the 1895 publication, W.B. Yeats changed ‘Niam’ to ‘Neeve.’ He published it as ‘Neave’ in at least one 1895 edition.



W.H. Auden, in On That Island by W.H. Auden

O God, what rubbish

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Jordan Castro lives in Silver Spring, MD. His latest novel, Muscle Man, is available from Catapult Books.