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Many poets are strong but few are tough in this necessary way. "Be generous / in your hatred: // You never know / what you’ll become." —Fred Chappell, former Poet Laureate of North Carolina Sometimes when we pick up a book of poems, we want it to feel like we are calling an ...
Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture---every department of human endea...
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If you lay yourself open to mondegreens, you must be valiant. The world, blowing near, will assail you with a thousand bright and strange images. Nothing like them has ever been seen before, and who knows what lost and lovely things may not come streaming in with them? But there is al...
Area anthologies representing Berkeley andSan Francisco Renaissance poets, were much more diverse (in terms of ethnicity, sexuality, and poetic form), and therefore more accurate harbingers of twenty-first-century-US poetry today than doorstopper, “career-making” collections like the Morrow ...
On the first day of June 1606 the mutilated body of a Punjabi wise man was swept downstream from Lahore. He had been drowned in the River Ravi after being cruelly tortured for his faith on the orders of the Mughal Emperor Jehangir. The current buffeted the lifeless corpse, carrying it so...
guards, the wind-blasted barracks where he is forced to sleep, the petty malice of his superiors. As you are drawn into the callousness and grievances of camp life, it is all too easy to forget: if this is Christyakov’s life, then what must conditions be like for thousands of ...
WJ: How did this story come together? What prompted you to write this book, and the eventual series? ST: Like all stories, this started with a couple questions. The first: If Jim Morrison (and eventually Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix) didn’t die, what really happened and what would ...