"Edson’s vivid portrayal of the urban area, as well as the working class and underclass, creates a vision of Saint John that highlights the discrepancy between the pre-modern idyllic notion of life in Atlantic Canada and the more complicated reality of the region."


-The New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia

Friday, August 2, 2013

Edgar Allan Poe's grave, Baltimore

Poe's original burial site,
at the rear of the cemetery.
He was later moved here,
to the front of the cemetery.