A regret: that I do not read poetry or the best fiction of modern writers.
A further regret: that though I’ve been aware of John Updike, I’ve not read a thing of his. And now he has died.
This poem, “Seven Stanzas at Easter”, appears to have been posted by permission, so I don’t want to copy and paste it here. But make the effort to go to it and read it.
Thanks, Andrea, for the link.
Rebekah
A certain fundamentalist university publishing house gave a negative review of one of Updike’s prose pieces in one of their middle school literature book’s, and I really wish I remembered the name of the piece, so that I could go back and reread it. This poem looks very would put a whole different spin on it…
Matthew
I have been a avid John Updike fan since the first time I went to MCC back in 2002 I was sad to see that he died. So I went out and had Alissa buy at half of half price what half priced books had to offer.