“My Little Spice Owl,” he would call her. Or “Mistress of Wonderment.” Or “She for Whom All Flowers Bloom Early.” Recovering from the massive stroke he suffered in 2005, poet and novelist Paul West dreamed up these and dozens of other fanciful names for his wife, writer Diane Ackerman. … Back to Article
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