From a fascinating book to come out in January 2009 by Roger Deakin, called Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees: Two days into my first camp, on 26 April 1959, we heard the first cuckoo and entered it into the Tomes [his diaries]. Under the strong influence of Robert Frost, I was moved to write aContinue reading “And Now for Something Completely Nonpolitical…”
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The Beauty of Humiliation (on the court)
Don’t often drop in basketball links, but this poem by Sherman Alexie — on an epochal humiliation — is pretty wonderful. The culprit is now little remembered, but Alexie won’t forget him — James "Jammin" Bailey.
Kit Stolz 