The Middle Passage Archives » Bookology Magazine https://www.bookologymagazine.com/tag/the-middle-passage Children's Literature Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:55:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 69996714 At the Dying of the Year https://www.bookologymagazine.com/knock-knock/at-the-dying-of-the-year https://www.bookologymagazine.com/knock-knock/at-the-dying-of-the-year#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2015 13:00:29 +0000 https://www.bookologymagazine.com/?post_type=article&p=7875 by Virginia Euwer Wolff

Now winter downs the dying of the year,
And night is all a settlement of snow… 
—Richard Wilbur, “Year’s End” 

 We all have our circles of particularly mourned lost ones. As our hemisphere darkens down in this elegiac season of the winter equinox, and death has been so relentlessly in the air during 2015, I wave my own little flags of gratitude to some of my mentors and accidental teachers.… more

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