Tuesday, April 10, 2007

News at Eleven: A meditation on the faces of Civil War

dead ([W.S.] Di Piero characteristically specifies both the photograph and the year the shot was taken) ends with an image of empty combat boots arrayed as a memorial to contemporary casualties, the boots "clownish and collapsed/for lack of feet they never fit quite right."

from The Philadelphia Inquirer: Poet offers a moving viewpoint rich in detail

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