“Encounter”: Linda Sillitoe’s Cabinet of Wonders
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Poet Highlight: Linda Sillitoe, “Encounter”“ [audio: http://fireinthepasture.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Sillitoe_Encounter.mp3] (My reading of “Encounter”) Linda’s unrhymed sonnet, “Encounter,” takes as its lyric province the intergenerational relationship between people, places, and possessions (yes, the alliteration was on purpose). The poet, born of goodly parents (at least it seems so from the cache of memories stirred up in this sensory experience), begins by lyrically binding… Read more »