Author: Lea Carpenter
Cites
- W. H. Auden (1)
- IN: Eleven Days (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: She looked over his shoulder
For vines and olive trees,
Marble well-governed citites
And ships upon untamed seas,
But there on the shining metal
His hands had put instead
An artificial wilderness
And a sky like lead.
FROM: "The Shield of Achilles", (1952), Poem, US/England