What The Thunder Said by Jed Rasula biography These lines understand their power

These lines understand their power to manipulate: 'this is a poem about my mouth / intended to draw attention / to my mouth'

acute in observation

Phoebe Power

Poetry of darkness and deformation

What The Thunder Said by Jed Rasula biography These lines understand their powerWhen T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty four year old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. But, as Jed Rasula writes, The Waste Land is not only a poem: it names an event, like a tornado or an earthquake. Its publication was a watershed, marking a before and after. It was a poem that unequivocally declared that the ancient art of poetry had become modern. In What the Thunder Said, Rasula tells the story