Excerpt from The Charnel Rose: Senlin a Biography, and Other Poems: His Dark Origins Senlin sits before us, and we see him... He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him... Is he small, with reddish hair, Does he light his pipe with a meditative stare, And a pointed flame reflected in both eyes? Is he sad and happy and foolish and wise?... Did no one see him enter the doors of the city, Looking about him at roofs and trees and skies?... I stepped from a cloud, he says, as evening fell, I walked on the sound of a bell; I ran with winged heels along a gust; Or is it true that I laughed and sprang from the dust?... Has no one, in a great autumnal forest, When the wind bares the trees with mournful tone, Heard the sad horn of Senlin slowly blown?... Has no one, on a mountain in the spring, Heard Senlin sing?
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Known American writer Conrad Potter Aiken won a Pulitzer Prize of 1930 for Selected Poems . Most of work of this short story critic and novelist reflects his intense interest in psychoanalysis and the development of identity. As editor of Selected Poems of Emily Elizabeth Dickinson in 1924, he largely responsibly established her posthumous literary reputation. From the 1920s, Aiken divided his life between England and the United States and played a significant role in introducing American poets to the British audience. He fathered gifted writers Joan Aiken and Jane Aiken Hodge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad\_...
