Monday, March 01, 2010

Ten of the best fogs in literature

At the Guardian, John Mullan named ten of the best fogs in literature.

One fog on the list:
"Fog" by Amy Clampitt

Somewhere by the Atlantic, fog swallows the world in Clampitt's poem, "the islands' spruce-tips / drunk up like milk in the / universal emulsion". Shrouding some things makes others more distinct: "the nodding / campanula of bell buoys; / the ticking, linear / filigree of bird voices".
Read about a fog in a famous novel on Mullan's list.

--Marshal Zeringue