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The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light. The trees grow dark: the shadows lean to the east: And lights wink out through the windows, one by one. A clamor of frosty sirens mourns at the night. Pale slate-grey clouds whirl up from the sunken sun.

A wonderful collection of Aiken's haunting and dreamlike poetry.

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This is an excellent collection of thematically-related poems by Conrad Aiken. Aiken's poetry is haunting and dreamlike (at times, nightmarish). Aiken's poetry is stylistically similar to T. S. Eliot's, but is much darker in tone. Highly recommended. (review from Goodreads)

First published in 1920, The House of Dust is a landmark work of modernist poetry and a haunting meditation on the transience of human life. Composed in a series of inter-related sections, the poem evokes a dreamlike and often surreal world of beauty and decay, hope and despair.

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First published in 1920, The House of Dust is a landmark work of modernist poetry and a haunting meditation on the transience of human life. Composed in a series of inter-related sections, the poem evokes a dreamlike and often surreal world of beauty and decay, hope and despair.

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