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“In a dark time the eye begins to see,” wrote Theodore Roethke in a poem he published some sixty years ago. Whether the dark time he spoke of referred to a personal darkness or to the shadow of the Cold War, the line affirms clarity amid gloom, the ability of vision to focus in the […]