Darkness Visible

Shortly after the first anniversary of September 11, when The New Yorker had published a slew of poems memorializing the events of that day--Galway Kinnell's "When the Towers Fell" and C

Lexi Rudnitsky

May 13, 2004 | This article appeared in the May 31, 2004 edition of The Nation.

Shortly after the first anniversary of September 11, when The New Yorker
had published a slew of poems memorializing the events of that
day--Galway Kinnell's "When the Towers Fell" and C

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