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The modernist’s editor, whether the writer be novelist or poet, is unlikely to pose that polite question: Do you think you could make things a little easier to follow?

As the poet William Butler Yeats observed after the end of the First World War, the center is not holding, while the best lack all conviction.

And on “Brand New City,” she takes in the scene surrounding her, noting that “‘You Can’t Hurry Love’ plays on the stereo,” while “We quote all our friends / Like they’re round-table poets.”

She was obsessed with the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, and aged 17, it was a "seamless transition" to Bob Dylan.

A transcript of a candid conversation, held when Van Der Zee was 91 years old, is one of two texts that complement the funeral portraiture; the other is writing by the poet Owen Dodson.