Thanks, Ann, I remember reading Jamaica Kinkaid's memoir "A Small Place," of her youth in Antigua, in Joyce Johnson's autobiography class at Columbia, such deep connection of observation and language...
Thanks so much! It is amazing, isn't it, how this engagement with place follows her through such different surroundings. The love of gardening is maybe an expression of that... In both her pieces for us there are all these instances of stopping the journey, pausing to look at the thing others have overlooked...
Thanks, Ann, I remember reading Jamaica Kinkaid's memoir "A Small Place," of her youth in Antigua, in Joyce Johnson's autobiography class at Columbia, such deep connection of observation and language...
Thanks so much! It is amazing, isn't it, how this engagement with place follows her through such different surroundings. The love of gardening is maybe an expression of that... In both her pieces for us there are all these instances of stopping the journey, pausing to look at the thing others have overlooked...