Tag: ray bradbury

• OPW: Ray Bardbury’s Byzantium

  

  July 11th, 2007

  There are few writings that so purely distill a twentieth-century American summer as Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine. And though I considered finding a better except for a warm summer day, I settled for the poem that Bradbury offered in writing the introduction to the new edition in 1974. The poem, entitled “Byzantium I Come Not…