21 April 2008 Poem

The poem for today's class is by Margaret Gibson, who writes absolutely luscious poems (including one about mangoes that, to my tastes, rates among the sexiest poems of all time) and who was my teacher.



One of the reasons I chose "Postcards in March" for class today is that it expresses a sense of a very concrete audience with carefully selected language. This is the degree of attention you should pay to audience in your papers and it's the topic of today's class.

Please feel free to comment here with questions or observations you may have about the poem.