When, or how, do a writer’s words take their place in the memory and imagination? What does their having done so have, in fact, to do with those words? This is the accident.
Edwin Frank, “The Accident,” Snake Train: Poems 1984-2013
Author: Edwin Frank
Edwin Frank was born in Boulder, Colorado, and educated at Harvard College and Columbia University, where he studied art history. He is the founder and editorial director of the New York Review Books Classics series and the author of Snake Train: Poems 1983-2014. He is currently finishing up a book about the novel and the twentieth century.