Latter-day epic …

… Clive James: “The River in the Sky” | The New Yorker. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

 … The selections found here chart a grand movement, leaping about as the larger book-length work does, but providing a sense of the flowing whole. James’s is a poem of memory, which is to say, of place and passion—one in which figures appear and reappear, ideas remain, and books form “walls of color / The sunlight will titrate from spring to autumn.”