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Originally Posted by Chris O'Carroll
It seems to me that Orr egregiously misreads "Galveston, 1961." He calls it the book's "strangest poem," but what's really strange is his impulse to time travel back to the great hurricane of 1900 instead of reading "Galveston, 1961" as a love poem set in the year its title specifies.
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There was a great hurricane in 1961. Carla, I believe. Maybe Wilbur's poem can be read as a personification of Carla itself. I don't know.
Also, I agree with Rick about the photo, though it may be the
Times fault more than his --
he clearly has some recent ones out there.
David R.