Like Memory, Caverns James E. Crouch the Stimson papers

the Stimson papers

John Wheelwright

parents and students working together

and help them develop critical new social

she ensures that her five-year old sister is washed

Like Memory, Caverns James E. Crouch the Stimson papersLike Memory, Caverns is an elegiac book, mourning losses from the personal to the planetary. Though personal in tone, these graceful, meditative poems reach insistently outward to the natural and social worlds, moving beyond today's confessionalism. In fact, the self keeps disappearing, as the world as it is seen seems to replace the seer. This poetry explores the tenuousness of each individual moment while affirming a necessary if difficult existence