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A 3 page essay that describes Rector's biography and then offers explication of his poem. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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life was undoubtedly influenced by his declining health, as he was suffering from heart trouble and colon cancer. Rector was born in Washington, D.C. in 1949 and he received a
Masters degree from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, as well as an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard ("Liam Rector" 2012). Rector taught at
several prestigious institutions, such as Columbia University and George Mason University and he was founder and director of graduate Writing Seminars at Bennington College, where he administered literary programs. His
honors include fellowships in poetry awarded by he Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He also served as poetry editor for Harvard Magazine, as well as associate
editor for Harvard Review and Agni ("Liam Rector" 2012). "Handmade Shoes" is a poem from his last collection of published poetry, The Executive Director of the Fallen World, which
was published in 2006. The literal meaning of the poem is that it offers the voice of a narrator, who is describing the experience of "walking/in Liams shoes" (lines 2-3),
which he inherited "When Liam died" (line 6). The narrator goes on to describe the shoes and the emotional impact of the act of wearing the dead mans shoes. On
a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, learn something of his life and perspective on life.
Surprisingly, as the entire concept of the poem seems rather morbid and dark, the tone and mood belie this first impression. As the reader delves deeper into the poem,
it becomes clear that the narrator is drawing solace from the experience of wearing his friends shoes. It is clear that, for the narrator, the shoes become symbolic of his
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