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Linda Lee Crosfield spent over 30 years in the travel business in Canada. She's on the editorial committee for WordWorks, the journal of the Federation of BC Writers, and lives in Ootischenia in South East BC.
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Published Spring 2007
 
A Good Place to Start
Big old bird, pelican belly-beak stuffed
with passengers who want want want
and she's in the galley, loading the trolley
for her third trip down the aisle.
There's a small stain on her sleeve,
gravy, perhaps, from the filet of steer,
or juice from the unremarkable chicken,
or fish. Most choose the fish, blackened
as if someone tried to cauterize it.
They're going on an adventure
and the fish looks like a good place to start.
Somewhere over the Grand Canyon
she collects drippy teapots and mostly untouched desserts,
tells the guy in 15C to stay in his seat
'cause it's going to get bumpy.
Sits down long enough to bolt her own meal,
thinks about the outfit she's making
for her daughter in the school play,
how the cat seems to be getting better,
and whether she'll stay with her man.
She's almost finished when someone comes up and says
how exciting, how romantic it must be
to get to fly all the time, like this. |
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MR BOOKS
Critics at Work
ed. Jeffrey J. Williams.
Critics at Work offers a guided tour through the central, sometimes confusing and frequently controversial developments in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. The tour guides, however, are not distant observers but have been primary participants in those developments, and they report on theory, cultural studies, the literary canon, the recent focus on race, sexuality, and other identities, the state of the univerisity, and the role of the intellectual. Throughout, they consider the not always easy negotiation of politics and culture.
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