The Call of the American Lotus
Heaven is the Mobile-Tensaw Delta when its mythical flower is in bloom. From the middle of its namesake delta, the city of Mobile, Ala., looks like a mythical place: shiny skyscrapers framed by…
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Margaret Renkl is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. Other work has appeared in Guernica, Literary Hub, Proximity, The Southern Review, and River Teeth, among others. Her essay collection will be published in 2019 by Milkweed Editions.
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Heaven is the Mobile-Tensaw Delta when its mythical flower is in bloom. From the middle of its namesake delta, the city of Mobile, Ala., looks like a mythical place: shiny skyscrapers framed by…
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