Mornings Like This (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Annie Dillard
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Letter writing, Painting or painters, Baseball, Letters, Puppets or puppet plays, Sky
As Annie Dillard notes in the introduction to Mornings Like This, most books of poetry do not need explanation, primarily because the reader assumes that they are original poems, written by a poet, for an audience that expects creativity and originality. While the audience’s expectations are fulfilled after reading the nearly forty poems in this collection, the fulfillment does not come from reading original poems written by a poet. Except for some titles and subtitles, Dillard did not write a word of Mornings Like This. Rather, she has “found” poems from a variety...
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