Archive for August 2021
Giving Away Mom
My mother’s name invades my writing room: the big, black, bold ANNE SEXTON jumping off the spine of Self-Portrait In Letters, a volume I edited when I was twenty-one, immediately after her suicide. Arranged on four of my many shelves are several rows of her books, both in English and in foreign translation, neither alphabetized…
Read MoreMy River
My new home is on a river with wide sweeping views: the Rhode in Edgewater, Maryland, to be precise. Right now the water has a little chop to it, and it is gray, because the day is overcast. We’ve just moved in and find ourselves transfixed by the amazing sunsets to the south, as well.…
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