“Attendance” draws upon my school days—as both student and teacher—for its title and organizing principle. I recall a moment in particular when our teacher, taking roll, paused at one student’s intrepid response upon hearing his name called. Present, he replied—in what seemed more an assertion about being, than location. Not here; but present. “Attendance” is a poem concerned with being present to the world.
Michael Bowden on "Attendance" |
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