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A Whole Lotta Soul
… recently a number of books have caught my eye (and ear). Concomitant with ruminating on these tomes, I have been … (this being his third book on that subject), Benjaminson is also savvy enough to provide substantial details of Wells’s … After a lifelong two-pack-a-day cigarette habit, Wells died of lung cancer in 1992. Fellow Motown artist Brenda …
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Bitter Idealist
… by his loyalty to both Stone and his wife, Janice, but was also glad to have someone on board to help him handle his often out-of-control companion. They traveled precariously throughout Haiti, but … acknowledgments. She had four children with a husband who died early, worked in a perfume store bought by her parents, …
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Is Free Verse Killing Poetry?
… William Childress. I asked him to elaborate further on that commentary, to which he sent the following. ––– When Willard … of any form,  vers libre  can shine—but we’ve had a steady diet of it for way too long. We are, unofficially at least, … agenda-ites seem determined to keep us there. As David Orr points out in  Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern …
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Sweet Armageddon
… it, could he know a deeper darkness? Yes. At the end would come the perfection of everything, even of blackness itself. … as he pulled at his long Johns and heavy trousers. He wore also a plaid shirt, a sweater, and a wool cap. He’d once … with the light, a city bus rolled by so close he felt its diesel exhaust blow against his legs. Passengers stared at …
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The Horsehair Ball Gown
… bladder stones once and didn’t give a sign of discomfort. Ever since Maud found out that the “police-bows” … her we could try some other eating place.” Isabella steadied herself against the glass-fronted china cabinet, which … a ferret-like little man, for Joplin, Missouri, and points beyond. She wrote home, but no one answered her …
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Ash
… box of ashes, its odd white weight, the brick of a life compacted there as if it gripped the man inside it. Unsteady …
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