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poem by Mary Oliver and sharing it with her teacher. I even persuaded my unlettered father to read a book about Belle Starr (by domain of literature. Maybe it isn't the ultimate "desert island" book we should be seeking, but those flukes that flit into our lives at unexpected moments, changing us forever. I think how dull my life would have been without the likes of Henry Miller, Kenneth Patchen some guy named Speer Morgan). As parents and teachers, we need to restore to our young the lost and Kenneth Rexroth, Vance Randolph, Lafcadio Hearn, R. H. Blyth, Charles Fort--a motley assortment perhaps, and one you'll never learn about in school. But I discovered them as surely as Columbus discovered America. And what about those touchstones, like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Golden Key, Jürgen, Flatland, de Angulo's Indian Tales, Stapledon's Star Maker, Werfel's Star of the Unborn--works to stir our deepest sense of mystery and awe? I understand Ronald Reagan has declared 1987 "the Year of the Reader." Tm not sure how auspicious this is, coming as it does from the Great Communicator, the man who said: "Now here again, in saying

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The Missouri ReviewUniversity of Missouri

Published: Oct 5, 1987

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