![]() Gridley writes, “I could not have written this book without walking the Downs that summer.” Farringford House, Tennyson’s former home, is neighbor to Dimbola, former home of the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, perhaps best known for making the 1865 portrait of Tennyson. ![]() Tennyson seems an unlikely influence for Gridley, who more likely fits into the lineage extending from HD to Barbara Guest. In her acknowledgments page Gridley thanks Martin Beisly, who put her “in touch” with Tennyson by way of a few nights’ stay at Farringford House, Isle of Wight. Throughout Loom Gridley places excerpts from Tennyson’s poem beside her own (sometimes autobiographical) lines: ![]() ![]() Sarah Gridley’s new collection, Loom, is comprised of three stunning sequences whose organizing emblem is Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott,” a poem that so deeply haunted Gridley that she set out to memorize it in the summer of 2006 before leaving Maine for a teaching position in Cleveland. ![]()
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