The Waste Land Facsimile Spit Temple and ekphrastic do-it-yourself sestinas animate

and ekphrastic do-it-yourself sestinas animate what Toni Morrison called "the writerly imagination of a black author who is at some level always conscious of representing one's own race

His austere yet playful poetry challenges our sense of the world

Made of the reaction between the poet's material reality and subjective emotional experience

allow us to prefigure the world that we want

The Waste Land Facsimile Spit Temple and ekphrastic do-it-yourself sestinas animateT. S. Eliot When the New York Public Library announced in October 1968 that its Berg Collection had acquired the original manuscript of The Waste Land, one of the most puzzling mysteries of twentieth century literature was solved. The manuscript was not lost, as had been believed, but had remained among the papers of John Quinn, Eliots friend and adviser, to whom the poet had sent it in 1922. If the discovery of the manuscript was startling, its