Read this essay on Substack! Read the poems: "The Early Purges" and "Limbo." Topics mentioned: -Poetry careerism in the 21st century -"The Iron Lyre" -The perennial appeal of the Gentleman Farmer Poet -Heaney's bog poems -The value of exposure to death -Rural vs. Urban morality -"The Need of Being Versed in Country Things" by Robert Frost -Piscine Christianity -"At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop -My Yucatan travelogue -My most recent Sleerickets appearance Support the show VISI...