Great Regulars: [Margaret] Atwood looks around

her at a world full of dark figures and forebodings, as in "The Singer of Owls", a haunting poem about a man who "wandered off into the darkness" as a boy. "He preferred dim corners, camouflaged himself/with the hair and ears of the others,/and thought about long vowels, and hunger, and the bitterness of deep snow."

from Jay Parini: The Guardian: Open and shut case

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