The Washington Post, October 10th, 2004
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) grew up in the harsh soil and savage climate of Michigan, where his German-American parents owned a 25- acre greenhouse in the Saginaw Valley, one of the largest in the Midwest. The family greenhouse ("A house for flowers! House upon house they built") was for him a deeply special place. It was both sacred and abysmal ground, simultaneously a natural world and an artificial realm, a locale of generation and decay, order and chaos. It came to stand for the lost world of his childhood ("I'd stand upon my bed, a sleepless child/ Watching the waking of my father's worl...
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