BY HARRIET MONROE The child wants a teddy-bear and tracks and engines that light up and go; the youth wants a lettered sweater or a million dollars or a sweetheart; Mr. Mussolini wants the earth; the poet wants the moon; the saint wants God. Here we all are, wanting something—and usually the unattainable. One may […]
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For Christmas
14
Dec 2012
Category: America, camille's loves, Chicago, Christmas, It Is What It Is
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Remember Remember the Twelfth of November
11
Nov 2010
For that is the fast approaching (6 hrs!) date upon which Richard Wilbur will release his new work : Anterooms Check out the tenacious tetrameters of the title poem: https://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2009/01/05/090105po_poem_wilbur
Category: Art, beauty, camille's loves, It Is What It Is, Poetry, Richard Wilbur, Wonder
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