Essays
… on 125th Street, where residents lounged on benches and welcomed each other with cheerful banter. They also welcomed me, and I sat beside them, took one of the kiddie’s box drinks they offered, and enjoyed their jovial talk …
… Sir Richard Southern Looks Back: A Portrait of the Medievalist as a Young Man In 1953 a book entitled The Making of the Middle Ages was published by Hutchinson and Company, an established English academic publishing house. … Ages unfolded by anecdotal illustrations of particular points, almost in the manner of an impressionist painter. A …
… that Paris was where all good Americans went when they died—but that it was even better to get there beforehand. I … Nin met Alice B. Toklas many years before I did, and in the company of Gertrude Stein. But our impressions are so … blouse, wool skirt, stout brown wool stockings, and sandals which were the soul and essence of all sandals. I later …
Poetry
Diagnostic II Over the past fourteen days how many days have you felt blue? For none of the time for some of the time for all of the time for all time Over the past fourteen days how many days have you felt gray? Over the past …
… Theodore Roosevelt spoke a patent truth: “Presidents may come,” he said, “and Presidents may go, but Uncle Remus … herself to identify her man, as it were, by. testimonials from people less important than the man himself. In … Alas, for that generation. It was in 1908 that Harris died. Only six years ahead lay the Great Confusion. But not …
Poetry
… 1853, A. C. Baldwin published The Traveler’s Vade Mecum, a compendium of more than 8,000 phrases that could be … and copper is rising; I must offer my compliments to the ladies. I will be refusing all medical advice, except for that … I traveled before I was born, and will travel after I die. They will come together, each clutching their copies, …