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Tracing Paradise: Two Years in Harmony with John Milton
by
Dawn Potter (Goodreads Author)
One winter morning, poet Dawn Potter sat down at her desk in Harmony, Maine, and began copying out the opening lines of John Milton's Paradise Lost. Her intent was to spend half an hour with a poem she had never liked, her goal to transcribe a page or two. Maybe she would begin to appreciate the poet's art, though she had no real expectations that the exercise would change...more
Paperback, 144 pages
Published
May 31st 2008
by University of Massachusetts Press
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This is an incredible book. I had no idea that I would love it so much. I love the humor, the verbs, and the descriptions of Harmony, Maine. I also loved her observations about marriage, kids, housework, goats, and John Milton. Why don't more people know about this book???
Done, finally! Slow going, or at least not gripping enough to get me back to it every night. I got distracted by other reading. But still, it was worth it. A good thought-provoker of the poetic persuasion.
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Dawn Potter is associate director of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching, held each summer at Robert Frost's home in Franconia, New Hampshire. Her most recent book, Tracing Paradise: Two Years in Harmony with John Milton, is a memoir of her strange obsession with copying out all of Milton's Paradise Lost while living an everyday, homebound life in the Maine woods. Thoughtful, funny, ...more
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