A recommendation from a friend: Patricia Smith’s Ethel’s Sestina, and the story behind it, about a man and his mother waiting for rescue during Hurricane Katrina.
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A recommendation from a friend: Patricia Smith’s Ethel’s Sestina, and the story behind it, about a man and his mother waiting for rescue during Hurricane Katrina.
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I’m curious whether you preferred the story to the poem or the poem to the story?
The poem’s cool, but I admit, the story really got me. Especially the part about the piece of paper. Just thinking about that makes me tear up.
I felt the same way.