Excerpt:
Describing how he felt in 1966 after a year of cancer treatments, Sissman writes near the conclusion of “A Little Night Music: The Curvature of the Earth,” remembering:
“…the increased sensitivity of my personal emulsion to the otherwise quite ordinary things in life. I could be startled, for almost purely asexual reasons, by the great spectacle of a young girl smiling; I could be transported by the odor (for example) of thyme crushed underfoot; I could be moved, almost embarrassingly, by the sound of a friend’s voice over the telephone; I could be stunned by the first Macoun apple of the fall.”
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