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English 11 course anthology
A complete poem for close reading, discussion, and writing.
1
The photograph gives everyone a coat, a place to stand, a winter afternoon. The label gives the mill its owner’s name. My aunt is “woman, unidentified.”
2
I write her name in pencil on a card. The letters lean as if they carry weight. A name is not the life it asks us for. It is a door we have arrived at late.
Original teaching text written for this course. People, organizations, quotations, and data in this selection are fictional unless explicitly identified as historical. Reuse with the course materials.