Afterlives
Mar 04, 2019
2 minutes
LANGDON HAMMER
“REMEMBERING POUGHKEEPSIE” is Elizabeth Spires’s sharp-edged elegy for her mentor, William Gifford, a literature professor at Vassar who helped Spires start out on her four-decade-long career as a poet. Spires describes a cold walk that she and Gifford took long ago by the Hudson River, which flows past the college town. The Hudson quickly becomes multivalent. It
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