Featured this week in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry column. (Column 116) Kooser on the poem:
It’s the oldest kind of story: somebody ventures deep into the woods and comes back with a tale. Here Roy Jacobstein returns to America to relate his experience on a safari to the place believed by archaeologists to be the original site of human life. And against this ancient backdrop he closes with a suggestion of the brevity of our lives.