In a recent conversation with Priscilla Becker published by the Poetry Society of America, Richard Howard commented that, |I don't like direct self-expression...I am more interested in the dialogue of others than in merely the dialogue with another...the dialogue of the others who are not me.| Among the speakers in The Silent Treatment are Hannah Arendt, George Eliot, Cosima Wagner and a boy in a photograph by Arkansas photographer, Mike Disfarmer.
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In a recent conversation with Priscilla Becker published by the Poetry Society of America, Richard Howard commented that, |I don't like direct self-expression...I am more interested in the dialogue of others than in merely the dialogue with another...the dialogue of the others who are not me.| Among the speakers in The Silent Treatment are Hannah Arendt, George Eliot, Cosima Wagner and a boy in a photograph by Arkansas photographer, Mike Disfarmer.