Essays
… liver and kidneys, which will be reinserted later on. Then comes the dish’s signature trick: Turn the removed skin and … again. Fill the resulting “sack” with the following ingredients: Some salt, one or two peeled onions, and a number of … Parts of Asia : “On these hills are a great number of animals called marmots, of a brownish color, having feet like a …
Criticism
… as the revelatory Uncollected Poems ; in so doing, he has become Rilke’s best and most important ambassador to American … Emerson’s “transparent eyeball,” taking everything in, but also like the statues of Rilke’s mentor Rodin, which seem to … hopes to reveal in his poems. In Snow’s hands, Rilke becomes clear as glass—as if the poems could be windows …
Fiction
… had the chance. Some people call us bums, some call us beachcombers, some people don’t call us anything: they just look, … the painting, the better the scavenging for unusual materials. That morning we started off in the usual spirit, … I know we passed fishermen drawing in their seines, brown bodies with thick back muscles straining in the sun as they …
… really wasn’t news. We have known that since the brave soldiers of General Lee’s army hopelessly shuffled home with … the historical reason, make necessary contemporary comparisons, and do something about it. The past, present, … — lawyers, business men, doctors, clergymen, public officials—either consciously or unconsciously serve the Lords of …
Poetry
… glassy wrappers, perched tea on our laps, and became an audience for his four-decade victory lap, the Great Wall, the … plated dinners at five, and wiped your tears and kept you company and mixed the drinks, and told you secrets, and … Valley, its mean brown flats, the spooky irrigation canals, the fields your father once worked a long time ago, …
… at a closed, locked school. Abandoned is the word that comes to my mind — a word with deep, hurtful implications … modern-day protest — much less full-blown civil disobedience — had come to race relations in the United States. I … of Lucy Vaughn ( “Miss Lucy”) and is one who also points to the relative independence of the African-American …