Bonnie Costello is a professor of English at Boston University. Her most recent book is Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life and the Turning World. She has published translations of Italian poetry and essays on travel, visual art, nature, and memory. “Inventory: Encounter with a Father’s Memories of War,” a companion piece to her essay herein, appeared in War, Literature and the Arts.
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