Wow by Bill Manhire
PBS Recommendation Winter 2020 Spanish Salvage at Twilight ends with

Salvage at Twilight ends with 'Deposition'

The End of the West (2009)

stories and mundanity

light and its absence

the difficulties both must face when he is at last restored to her

Wow by Bill Manhire <br><b>PBS Recommendation Winter 2020</b> Spanish Salvage at Twilight ends withBill Manhire's Wow opens with the voice of an extinct bird, a song from anciency, and takes us forward into the present and the darkening future of other extinctions. For Manhire, the reach of the lyric is long: it has the penetration of comedy, satire, the Jeremiad, but also the delicacy of minute detail and the rhythms of nature's comfort and hope, the promise of renewal. In the title poem the baby says 'Wow', and the wonder is real at the world and