The World and the Bo Tree

232 Pages·1991·11.1 MB·English

by  Bevington, Helen, 1906-2001

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Duke University Press Durham & London
The author’s book review of Annie Dillard’s
Teaching a Stone to Talk (“Tranquility &
Trembling”) originally appeared in The New York
Times Book Review, November 28, 1982, © 1982
by The New York Times Company; reprinted by
permission. The poem “Childhood” originally
appeared in the Kentucky Poetry Review.
“The Snow Man,” from The Collected Poems of
Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens, © 1923 and
renewed 1951 by Wallace Stevens; reprinted by
permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and Faber &
Faber Ltd. “Afterthought,” from Notebook, 1967—
1968 by Robert Lowell (New York: Farrar, Straus
& Giroux, 1969), © 1969 by Robert Lowell;
reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
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It is not a chronicle or almanac;
many events turn
up, many others of equal or
greater reality do not.
This is not my diary.
—Robert Lowell, “Afterthought”
But why not say what happened?
—Robert Lowell, “Epilogue”