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Fiction
… dreary the rest of the world was—was roughly analagous to comparing Xanadu with a federally subsidized … had seen her. Christine wondered about anorexia. She would also like to know, from Maury, whether Maury took drugs, if … laughing and kidding around and acted as if a cop had come to the door of a party. They had been buying scallops. …
Essays
… Trying to Keep Faith: Adrienne Rich’s “Usonian Journals 2000” In the “Artworks (II)” section of “Usonian … Rich’s work of the last two decades imagines and embodies a jazz-inflected process that bears witness to … a temple to greed. Staring into the political abyss, she comes to the realization that “I was no longer connected …
… singing to the tune of an old music-hall song. Then . . . coming from the opposite direction, two young peasant women: … nose. As he sits there the squad of Tommies goes by. Soldiers (singing as they march): The bells of Hell go ting … in his hand as the Curtain falls quickly.) Copyright, 1926, by Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy. 226-237 By Amélie Rives …
… with the mist and fragrance of melting snow, he would come into the back yard with his brightly painted hand-organ … desperately to some small crevice. Then the heavy bodies of the two boys hit me and we rolled together down onto … pudding in, and I picked a bunch of white violets, but they died in my hand on the way home. My mother’s lilac bushes …
… The likeness goes further: each possesses the technical accomplishment of verse. But here the report is not so … this term perhaps, but the goods with which economics deals are no other than those perfectly arbitrary ones defined … delicious without painful consequences and all the toys obedient to the mechanics’ pleasure; so much it might lack of …