At the end of the poem,the man has quite clearly gone mad from grief: And the raven,never flitting,still is sitting still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;

VOA: special.2009.02.02

I want to see you back at the end of this trip covered in mud!'" Other dads in Feiler's Council of Dads include the man who helped Feiler get published back when he was an unknown writer.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

"Back before there were any awards of any kind for this kind of music, the reward for a blues man was a pocket full of change , some bills at the end of the night, and the knowledge that you've got a place to sleep out of the rain and the wind.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04