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Frost Land On the small balcony with purple morning glories and magenta zinnias in pots, I see two eagles flowing west to east, lower to higher, doing whatever they do at a time like this, but definitely showing themselves off in a faded blue flannel sky with a…
Read More »Robert Frost in Amesbury, Mass. (1897-1898). Who Knew? Well, somebody knew about this but I didn’t even though I’ve been in Amesbury for eight years. Plus, I’ve studied authors of the region since reading Thoreau’s “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers” in the 1970s. How did I miss…
Read More »The 100th anniversary issue of The New Yorker magazine (Feb. 10) includes a literary scoop, the first publication of a previously unknown poem by Robert Frost (1874-1963). The short poem, “Nothing New,” dated 1918 in Amherst, Mass., is written in the front of a copy of his second book, North…
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