Idyll Banter: Weekly Excursions to a Very Small To Poetry suggest the layers of patterns

suggest the layers of patterns in the natural world

and also understand why these traits evolved

Yet she struggled to reconcile her fame with her roles as a wife and mother and retreated to the backwoods of Idaho

With its generous size

and marinate to perfection

Idyll Banter: Weekly Excursions to a Very Small To Poetry suggest the layers of patternsYears ago, Chris Bohjalian and his wife traded their Brooklyn co op for a century old Victorian house in Lincoln, Vermont (population 975). Bohjalian, a bestselling novelist, began chronicling life in that gloriously quirky little village with a wide variety of magazine essays and his newspaper column, Idyll Banter. These pieces, written over the course of twelve years, are honest, funny, and deeply affecting reflections on the unique idiosyncrasies