... is the role of the cover image to the volume itself.
It occurred to me - between various social functions this weekend - that Nora L. Koch's cover for 'The Green Lake Is Awake' (see below) cannot be coincidental. A rather luxuriant raspberry pink ripply surface.
I'm also thinking about the Brainard cover to Berrigan's 'Sonnets' - the recent Penguin reissue - with the arrow pointing between the toes. Athlete's foot (rather than the poet's foot)? Berrigan's can/can't-toes? Parasitic growths upon the Body of Literature?
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Today, boys and girls, we’re going to look at ‘Song of the Chinchilla’ by Lisa Jarnot*. I liked the poem immediately – and I’ve given it to ...
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April Fool?
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