If I had to sum up Yann Martel’s new novel in one word, it would be “grim,” which is not to deter readers but to prepare them. In scope, if not in length, Beatrice and Virgil rivals Martel’s previous novel, Life of Pi, with its necessary and answerless questions and its cast of bizarre characters.
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I love this year’s National Poetry Month poster! Do you? I still have last year’s (need to get some nice poster frames for the new study, I think). This one features the lines “We make a dwelling in the evening air, / In which being there together is enough.” from Wallace Stevens’s poem “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour.”
I’m still thinking about how I will celebrate NPM this year. Do you have any plans?
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