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On Carl Sandburg’s “Buttons”
“Are they assigned, or can the countries pick their colors?” wonders Elizabeth Bishop in her whimsical poem “The Map” (1946). It’s an odd sort of utopian fantasy, where the land and sea, once depicted by the map-maker, produce their own … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Sandburg, Elizabeth Bishop, Maps, World War I, World War II
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