The crow-killing in this poem was something I recall my father doing once or twice when I was young, to preserve the garden and berry orchards, before he started letting the birds take what they wanted. This poem is interested in those possibilities—when we center the self and its protection, when we claim possession, or don’t, when we cause harm, and when we choose something else.
Corrie Williamson on "A Brief History of Preservation" |
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Celebrate National Poetry Month with Our Readers
"When I teach writing about place, I try to tell my students that even their innocuous hometowns can be places of beauty and depth. I try to tell them that training your eye for detail will help you render the intricacies of a subject, that you’ll begin to recognize something has depths you had never considered. When I show my students 'Vital Signs'—a poem that brings me back to the harsh winters of my hometown in Northern Michigan—I tell them, 'Anything can hold a large amount of contradictions, even a small town, even a small poem.'"
Brian Czyzyk |
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"All Four Shakespeare Folios to Auction"
"The set, which will be offered in London on May 23 with an estimate of £3.5 – £4.5 million, was brought together in 2016, but the First, Third, and Fourth Folios have been together since around 1800 when they were purchased separately by Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn. He was a bibliophilic polymath whose scientific endeavors included pioneering the barometric measurements of altitude and inventing a new way of calculating the standard length of a yard."
viaFINE BOOKS MAGAZINE |
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