Time Song by Julia Blackburn Helen Vendler The Poem Is You: Sixty

The Poem Is You: Sixty Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them is a guide to the diverse magnificences of American poetry today

and the Scholar is an eloquent plea for the centrality

so that's 8 books and 4 magazines a year

little shells that happen to be two million years old

Virginia Woolf and Polly Tandy

Time Song by Julia Blackburn Helen Vendler The Poem Is You: SixtyJulia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to be two million years old, a flint shaped as a weapon long ago. Time Song brings many such stories together as it tells of the creation, the existence and the loss of a country now called Doggerland, a huge and fertile area that once connected the entire east coast of England with mainland Europe,