Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Great Regulars: I'm especially attracted to poems

that describe places I might not otherwise visit, in the manner of good travel writing. I'm a dedicated stay-at-home and much prefer to read something fascinating about a place than visit it myself. Here the Hawaii poet, Joseph Stanton, describes a tree that few of us have seen but all of us have eaten from.

Banana Trees

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 119

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