John McPhee: Rising from the Plains

Dec 11, 1989

Writing Rising from the Plains, McPhee remarked before his 1989 reading at the Poetry Center, "I got into a dialogue with [Miss Ethel Waxham]—writer to writer, author and subject—speaking back and forth across most of a century. I couldn't resist this duet. There was so much wit and elegance in the way she put things."

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