[lit-ideas] Re: Found Poetry

Julie wrote of Annie Dillard:

<Please, *please* tell me you know "Holy The Firm".>

Yes, I do, very well. There is a flaming moth in the first part and in the 
second, a burnt child. There are a great many great things in between. I 
have most of her stuff and consider her a major American miracle. Her 
writing is as much about her reading as anything else and I love the way she 
connects all her unending readings in religion, philosophy and science with 
each other and with what we all are from day to ordinary day, and the way 
she looks steadily at what is atrocious and painful in the human experience 
and embraces it. I do not know who else looks at such a wide world with so 
careful and so poetic an eye.

<Still, my favorite of her "found  poems" from Mornings Like This to be 
posted later after I get my children to  school.  Fair warning, merely.>

I look forward to it. Best, MN 


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