Monday Premiere

Coming Monday, August 7, Part 1 of the interview with David Barber on his new book WONDER CABINET (Northwestern University Press, 2006).

"I plead guilty to reveling in profusion and time-traveling with impunity. There’s a fabled fragment from a poem by the ancient Greek poet Archilochos that you may have heard of: The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one great thing. I guess my nature is such that I’ve thrown in my lot with the foxes. And with the magpies too, come to think of it: I read a good bit of history, I like rummaging around in the past, and the germ for a poem often begins when the glint of something from long ago and far away catches my roving eye."

-Poet and poetry editor of THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, David Barber

- AH