Talvikki Ansel
Talvikki Ansel was educated at Mount Holyoke, Indiana University and Stanford, where she had a Stegnar Fellowship. She has published in Atlantic Monthly, New Republic and Poetry and has received a Pushcart Prize. Her books are My Shining Archipelago, which received the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1996, and Jetty (Zoo Press, 2003). She lives in Rhode Island. “John Clare” originally appeared in Shenandoah 45/3.
Reading List
John Clare
Spondee; name – damp earth and distance. This is what it’s like to leave – first the dirt, robin perched on the handle of the spade; Mary, up- ending a bucket for him to sit while she hisses the milk …