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… of Whitman’s art: the self so large, so exemplary, so all-encompassing that it empties itself of all specific content … This despite the epic catalogues—full to bursting with bodies and place names and bustle and tools of the many … of the union and the firing on Fort Sumter. But he had also been an enthusiastic supporter of the War with Mexico …

… Foreign Bodies “The exile is a ball hurled high into the air. He hangs … to Los Angeles for two weeks to celebrate his mother’s upcoming wedding—“not her second or third,” Andrew would later … a tourist visa—“an expired tourist visa,” Andrew painfully points out—and has had to submit a green-card application to …

… at the Vermont State House. The house and senate judiciary committees had called an extraordinary hearing to give the … the language they used and the emotional tenor of their appeals showed the ways that what we often describe as a … life. He and his partner had cared for his father as he died. “We understood what the term family means, and I have …

… in a certain frame of mind, for a long enough time, is to become lonely and thirsty and vaguely alarmed, forgetful that … by Franciscans in the 1600s, while M16-bearing Israeli soldiers looked upon them all with unmistakable irritation. A … them gospels.) The first oral stage of the Jesus story is also its most potentially revealing, and we have, at best, …

… passed down like fragile heirlooms, fill the void. Sarah died in 1850, just two days after birthing her tenth child. … death. Her uterus held the future of the slave economy, and also of our family. Before she died, Sarah urged Richard to … the radiologist’s certainty may have offered my mom some comfort in the moment, this is not how she remembers it. She …