The March 16th edition of The New Yorker contains some really great poetry by John Updike. The poems on dying are elegant, thoughtful, moving.
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See also Nicolaus Mills' "John Updike's Goodbye" in Dissent.
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I'll have to check this out. I saw Updike read in my hometown once, and I was deeply moved by the experience. Some of his work was only so-so, but the best of it was spectacular, and he could write the heck out of a sentence. He'll be missed.
ReplyDeleteI think these poems are very good--I think through some of these poems, Updike was able to express the changing perspective a coming death brings. Some nice, creative turns of phrase, too.
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