A year given to one quiet practice: attention. We read slowly, notice what lingers, and let two great works — one in the fall, one in the spring — teach us how to attend to a book, and to the world it opens.
It’s built as a whole, the way a year is. Here is the shape of it.
We begin at sea — Hemingway’s spare, luminous story of an old fisherman and the marlin he will not let go, read alongside a handful of poems that listen the way he does. A study in endurance, dignity, and what it means to attend to something fully.
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In spring we step into the wood — Shakespeare’s most enchanted comedy, a night of lovers and fairies where nothing stays as it seems. A turn from the solitary sea to the tangled, comic company of others, and a look at how attention itself can be bewitched and restored.
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