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… exclamation point; but he always lives up to exclamation points.) It is my first day at Madison, where I have come to … began writing “The Locomotive-God” during the summer of 1926. Before the end of September of that year the book of 427 … through the years, disintegrated. But the terror, disembodied, remained. And then in “manhood’s grief”—like the ghost …

… to look pretty. Some of those goals seem impossible, or incompatible, or prohibitively difficult; not worth what I … Most of my favorite music during the 1990s was called indie-pop, or “twee,” a mostly British genre derived from the … dress, because at this point in my life, and perhaps at all points, I’d be too distracted, and so would my students. I’d …

… Quarterly in the 1930’s and has led unsurprisingly to computer-based statistical surveying in more recent years) … between them is precisely their common role as reference-points in political and social debate. But, as we shall see, … actors themselves being acted upon by their compatriot audience, we shall see the re-emergence of the domestic themes …

… Despite, or should I say notwithstanding, the recent compaign to write certain contracts in plain English, the … more than courtroom mysteries or novels focusing on obscure points of law because they promise to give us the life of … Stanford Law Review article, has all the necessary ingredients for compelling drama. For the drama to emerge, the …

… erotic poetry and war poetry. The two modes have more in common than we might think. Poets craft their singular … do to a man. Say you are twenty years old. Say your father died and you felt cut adrift. Say, as Richard Hugo does, … the crowd of the bloody forms of soldiers–the yard outside also fill’d; Some on the bare ground, some on planks or …