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Arc Poetry::How Poems Work::Sandy Shreve on Anne Wilkinson's …

Posted in Uncategorized on November 1st, 2003

web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) wrote an interesting post today on Arc Poetry::How Poems Work::Sandy Shreve on Anne Wilkinson's …
Here’s a quick excerpt
of Anne Wilkinson (1924-1961), ed. by Dean Irvine, Signal Editions, Vehicule Press, 2003 (with permission). “Tigers Know From Birth” appeared in Anne Wilkinson’s 1955 collection, The Hangman Ties the Holly—the second of only two … On land , the speaker feels incipient storms in her bones in time to seek shelter, but to no avail, as lightning strikes the tree under which she huddles. On water, she is “hung with seaweed” where the metaphor of the “cold-blooded carp” …

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