Time Song by Julia Blackburn Helen Vendler his vision impaired by surgery

his vision impaired by surgery and unable to read

little shells that happen to be two million years old

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sometimes a personal anecdote about the role the poem played in his own life

Time Song by Julia Blackburn Helen Vendler his vision impaired by surgeryJulia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to be two million years old, a flint shaped as a weapon long ago. Time Song brings many such stories together as it tells of the creation, the existence and the loss of a country now called Doggerland, a huge and fertile area that once connected the entire east coast of England with mainland Europe,