For Richard Turner

Peter Sacks

1978

Assassinated in Durban, South Africa, January 8, 1978

You wrote on the back page
of my last essay (“Political
Education in The Republic”)
“Good ideas, but style
too literary. Use of images
evades the final point.”
When I left,
you thought me still evasive,
trying to pass off
my own fear of suffering
as a form of wisdom.
I’d said, “There’s…
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Peter Sacks

b. 1950

South African-born Peter Sacks, who immigrated to the United States in 1970, is a professor of English at Harvard University. He has published scholarly texts as well as collections of poetry. Sacks’s work, which often addresses the relationship between literature and art, received the 1985 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award and first prize in the 1999 University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series contest.

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