Monday, January 13, 2003

Arrival At Santos Comments

Rating: 2.9

Here is a coast; here is a harbor;
here, after a meager diet of horizon, is some scenery:
impractically shaped and--who knows?--self-pitying mountains,
sad and harsh beneath their frivolous greenery,
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Elizabeth Bishop
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Susan Williams 18 December 2015

She is a writer capable of turning an experience into something of monumental importance- she doesn't pass a single day without seeing moments that should be explored

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* Sunprincess * 19 March 2014

....enjoyed this stanza Finish your breakfast. The tender is coming, a strange and ancient craft, flying a strange and brilliant rag. So that's the flag. I never saw it before. I somehow never thought of there being a flag,

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Luke Johnson 18 December 2009

Legit. One of her top five works.

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