Frank Prem
. . . why should I carewhat my grandfathers thoughtthey were thenwhile I am now~In Finding The Gander Part I, Frank Prem began a close reading and poetic response to Joseph Campbell’s The Flight of the Wild Gander (1969). Campbell’s book closes with two concentrated essays that turn toward the deeper structures of myth and the ways ancient patterns continue to shape modern life.In this second part of Finding The Gander, the poems responds poetically to these final chapters. Each poem begins with a single idea from Campbell’s writing and follows it into lived experience, where myth and the present moment intersect.Finding The Gander: Part II completes the second volume of the Campbell Interpreted series, bringing the conversation to a reflective close.~the bow is the bowwhat further meaningshould it holdfor the arrow . . .
