"fragile as the inner skin of eggs"
Barrax, Bierds, Baldwin, Lee, Waldman
Gerald Barrax:
Linda Bierds:
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I wrote a paper on Bierds’s collection The Ghost Trio, for a grad school class taught by the late critic Denis Donoghue. He gave me an A — shocking for me, an older student from a non-academic background. To this day that paper, and Donoghue’s comments, are among my few meaningful memories from that time.
That entire collection is a marvel. Thanks, Sean — hope you and yours enjoy a peaceful holiday.
Thank you, Sean, for this introduction to Gerald Barrax, and for the Baldwin---I've always that "Sonny's Blues" was in some ways more poetry than prose.