By Heidi Seaborn On publication, critics believed T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land gave voice to the spiritual, cultural and economic despair of the times—after the mass devastation of World War I, an influenza pandemic, and as fascism was rising in Europe. Eliot responded about his book-long poem: “it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.”  […]

Memoir in Poetry: Writing with T.S. Eliot During Uncertainty and Chaos