The Writer's Almanac from Sunday, April 21, 2013 "Wedding" by Alice Oswald, from The Thing in the Gap-stone Style. © Oxford University Press, 1996. ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2013 In 1909, Mark Twain is reported to have said: "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year and I expect to go out with it. ... The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'" And he was true to his word:
It's astounding GK could find so many excellent poems to anthologize. Whenever I despair of finding a good poet, I pick up this or his previous volume.
It's astounding GK could find so many excellent poems to anthologize. Whenever I despair of finding a good poet, I pick up this or his previous volume.