Great Regulars: The Gerard Manly Hopkins epigraph

that begins "Moon Sighting" is filled with startling music and turns of phrase that are echoed in [Melissa Gurley] Bancks' poem, in which a mother reads to a son who is just learning to speak.

The child speaks the word "moon," but there is the moon in the book, the moon in the sky and the moon in his mouth. The sudden grasp of the interconnectedness becomes a transcendent moment for the boy with the "moon" being lifted out of the "bone house" of language, and the boy being lifted out of his own body--Hopkins' "bone house."

from Walter Bargen: The Post-Dispatch: Mom helps boyreach for the moon

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