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Thoughts on poetry, opera, fiction, and theology. I love weird traditional artists--Bosch, Hofmannstal, Rabelais, David Jones. The existence of anything at all is astonishing!

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About J.C. Scharl

Playwright and poet. Poetry editor at Plough Quarterly.

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