Tomorrow morning, I'll be teaching a class on "Where the Wild Things Are", the 1963 picture book by Maurice Sendak (1928-2012). Having prepared it now, I'm thrilled at the book's richness and complexity. I knew it as a child, of course, and I read it to my own children, too, so many of the things I made notes on today relate to the experience of reading it as a child and as a parent. But some of my thoughts come from outside that context, such as my association of the "yellow eyes" of the wild things with the "yellow eyes" of a gun and a cannon in two Emily Dickinson poems. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 28 April 2026)