Nancy Willard

Nancy Willard’s most recent books include a collection of poems,In The Salt Marsh (Knopf,2004) and a book of essays on writing,The Left-Handed Story (The University of Michigan Press, 2008.)

She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in both fiction and poetry. She teaches in the English Department at Vassar College.

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A Very Still Life

Nancy Willard  | 
Issue 61.2 Spring 2012

The night after the service, his sister appears to him. She is gathering her paintings for the show her gallery promised: seascapes like bowls of broth, moons like Camembert wheels, chunked off and eaten. Her life’s work! She asks his …