On the 1966 Poem That Warns of Bio-Acoustic Die-Off and the Destruction of Our Soundscapes
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The poet Basil Bunting was as old as the century when he died in 1985. His life was bookended by the relief of Ladysmith and Thatcher’s defeat of striking miners. He was imprisoned in Wormwood Scrubs as a conscientious objector in 1918. In the 1920s he was at the turbulent centre of literary modernism, as (in Yeats’s words) “one of Pound’s more savage disciples,” until Pound’s vile politics proved unconscionable. (“Either you know men to be men,” Bunting wrote, “and not something less, or
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