QUARANTINE 7 - Crusoe in England
Feeling we may benefit from a work both far away and near, about isolation and home building and care (even in words), Elizabeth Bishop’s “Crusoe in England” came to mind. Below is a link to the poem (with a recording of Bishop reading the poem), and otherwise listen here to us mull what Bishop made of Daniel Defoe’s most famous, seventeenth-century castaway’s experience and reflections—a timeless poem. She writes: “The sun set in the sea; the same odd sun/rose from the sea,/and there was one of it and one of me” – as Ted would say, “just like all of us!” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48287/crusoe-in-england