Re putrefying hamburger meat. One of my favorite descriptions is from Robert Lowell's "Returning Turtle":
Weeks hitting the road, one fasting in the bathtub, raw hamburger mossing in the watery stoppage, the room drenched with musk like kerosene- no one shaved, and only the turtle washed.
I have published four novels and two academic books; forthcoming in 2014 is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Re putrefying hamburger meat. One of my favorite descriptions is from Robert Lowell's "Returning Turtle":
ReplyDeleteWeeks hitting the road, one fasting in the bathtub,
raw hamburger mossing in the watery stoppage,
the room drenched with musk like kerosene-
no one shaved, and only the turtle washed.