NPPF--commentary--727-728--No, Mr. Shade . . . Just half a shade

[Paul Mackin]

The note is a fairly straight forward appreciation of Shade's ability as
a poet. 


Reminds me of that business of Shade being his own cancellation. 
All the excellence of Shade goes into his poetry leaving only the
decrepit unassuming parts behind in his physical person. 

Shade in writing his poem is writing his own death as stanza by stance
Gradus is drawing nearer. 

Isn't this something autobiographical novelists and poets can in a sense
be said to do?