The poem describes an incident related to me by my father, though he could not recollect the precise book he was reading at the time. I have, in lieu of this gap in his memory, embedded intertextual references to another famous walk taken through the English countryside by Dorothy and William Wordsworth and later recounted in “I wandered lonely as a cloud.”
Supritha Rajan on "My Father Walks Out of an English Book and Into an English Field" |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Evie Shockley on Language as Form
"I found this truism (which seems to readily reproduce itself: 'one sin begets another,' 'one tragedy begets another,' 'one wedding begets another') bubbling up in my brain. If only one vote begat another in that inevitable way, I sighed, thinking of how hard it was to get women’s right to vote established as the law of the land—and of how long it was after that before Black women were able to exercise their 'women’s rights.'" |
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