Hospital Window | The Spiritual and Metaphysical
In this essay,
Blevins explores the ways in which James Dickey’s
“The Hospital Window” articulates and makes accessible
an experience that is, in the end, of a highly
spiritual and even metaphysical nature.
In his introduction to The Best American Poetry 1991, the American poet Mark Strand tells an especially illuminating story about his mother’s fear and bewilderment in the face of his decision, as a college student, to become a poet. “But then you’ll never be able to earn a living,” his mother said. Strand, after a commendable discussion on the differences between the language of poetry and the language of nonfiction prose—generally fact-bound news—that his parents read, says that it wasn’t until after his mother’s death that his father came to understand the...
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