Poetic ballads that speak to a father's quest to chronicle daily life amid times of collapse. Taking its name from part of a lost triptych by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, The Wayfarer documents its speaker's attempt to forge a path through the world--both as a father and as an artist--and to adequately capture the experience of living through poetry. In language that melds the vernacular and the archival, these ballads recall...
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Poetry