There is this sunny place where I imagine him.A park on a hill whose grass wants to turnInto dust, & would do so if it weren’t
On October 19, 1865, Sam Clemens—nearly 30 years old, in debt, haphazardly employed—wrote a letter to his brother Orion. Encouraged by the completion of his first significant creation, “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog,” Clemens overflowed...
