"London’s ‘Great Winter’ of 1683"
"It is tempting to take Carol Ann Duffy for granted...because of her productivity. But reading this small, icy, perfectly formed book—a ballad, a winter’s tale—one is reminded of Duffy’s consistent excellence. And here she is supported by David de las Heras's understatedly graceful illustrations. A solitary figure in rusty red walks through a sepia world of snow, flanked by feathery poplars."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Tanya Larkin on Emily Dickinson’s [I started Early—Took my Dog—]
“When I was in high school, I wrote out Emily Dickinson’s '[I started Early—Took my Dog—]' in outsize Goth-y script and taped it to my wall—understanding little of it. I had come across it while doing the dreaded twenty-page research paper for US History, the hallmark assignment of many a college prep school. My teacher was kind. He allowed me to take a patently literary topic and wrench it into a historical one, which is how I found myself leafing through Dickinson’s Collected looking for vaguely feminist poems. This one must have stood out in its forceful expression of utter female power." |
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