Three Memorial Day Poems
On this Memorial Day, Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields, and my “Poetics Lesson” offer us access to the living spirit that may speak to us from the dead.
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For the subject of “A Crown for the Divorcee at Fifty-Nine,” Kim Bridgford’s late masterpiece, the initial effect of divorce seems to be self-cancellation.
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