AN AFTERNOON AT THE BEACH | ON EXHIBIT | |||||
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owers had a lifelong love affair with the beach. It began in childhood, when he would vacation with his family on the coast of North Carolina, and it gave rise to one of his juvenile poems, My Desire, in which the 13-year-old poet expresses his wish to live by the sea. Bowers's wish came true soon after he began teaching at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He bought a modest, one-bedroom house on Miramar Beach in Montecito and rented it to friends or acquaintances during the summers while he traveled. The living room faced south toward the ocean, which, at high tide, would wash beneath his deck. Bowers had the cadence of the waves in his ears day and night, and the view from his house figured prominently in some of his finest short poems. |
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