Today marks the true beginning of Spring for me — the first day in the year when I pick up my old leatherbound notebook and return to the garden to write. Old Mr Chumbles, our sole outdoor cat, who has had a very long & bitter winter to endure ensconced under the front porch in [...]
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. 7c. Ruins on the Somme: a lost war poet rediscovered
Posted in Dana Gioia, Ernest Hemingway, John Allan Wyeth, lost American classic, Matthew Bruccoli, Modernism, New Formalism, River Somme, sonnet, used bookstores, war poetry, World War I, tagged Dana Gioia, John Allan Wyeth, lost American classic, New Formalists, River Somme, sonnet, war poetry, World War I on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Of the many thousands of times that I have drawn a dusty nondescript book from a poorly-lit shelf in a used-bookstore during the past forty years, only once can I claim to have pulled down and opened an entirely unknown classic of American literature. Not that I recognized it as such at the time. Nor even now, on the eve of its re-publication by [...]









