Kaitlin Pontzer // When I was I child, I watched movies with my dad. He has always been a lifelong student of films, and he shared these precious experiences with his kids. We sailed with Captain Bligh, sleuthed with Sam Spade, fought the bandit Calavera, searched for gold in the Sierra Madre, and even reached…
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The Grief of Miss Jane Barker: A Seventeenth-Century Anatomy
Kaitlin Pontzer//There may be no wrong way to grieve, but the grief of Jane Barker was particularly odd. When her beloved brother died in 1675, Barker wrote an anatomical poem to commemorate his passing. To be precise, she wrote “A Farewell to POETRY, with a Long Digression on ANATOMY,” in which she was guided on…