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Notes on Selling One’s Identity
… Raising a kid in a world chock full of potential tragedies—the exposed electric sockets! the careless drivers! the … just that he’s already as strong and smart and stocked with common sense as a goodly number of adults. He’s just as … Virginia; she blogs regularly for VQR. Visit her website at  jenniferniesslein.com . motherhood By Jennifer …
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Robert Bly and James Wright: A Correspondence
… had were not in the book.”  In Germany, all but two of his company got blown to pieces because a lieutenant made a … had won the war. Thousands and thousands of men my age had died. There was a lot of gratitude for that enormous … merely sensitive— I hope this explains some of the unclear points; I must stop now, it is too late; but please write …
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This is Not a Requiem for Detroit
… dissolution of city services, decay and the chaos that comes with it. I grew up around the detritus of urban … Detroit the eleventh most populated city in the US. It is also 80% black, according to the last available US census. … And the stress—I do feel strongly that the stress—he died the 28th of June. They call you back in September, and …
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Elegy and Eros: Configuring Grief
… in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” I want first to remind us of the complex narrative structure of Whitman’s poem for his … “If thou wast not granted to sing thou would’st surely die” takes its diction from Quaker idiom. Whitman’s mother … his own journey to death. This is one of my central points: not just Lincoln but also Whitman must die in this …
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American Poetry: An Allegory
… live and work in their forefathers’ massive, abandoned bodies until those structures collapse into dust, a practice … the last inhabitant as weightless as a ghost. 2. You might also approach from the sea, and observe that the state … from the miles of machinery that surround them. 4. Coming from the west, you notice a city facing the ocean and …
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The News From the World of Beauty
… will follow. At the colony, I read the news in what has become my habitual way: a glance at the New York Times website every two or three days. At breakfast one morning in … I was the only one who knew that John Ashbery had died the day before. But every night, as I tried to fall …
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