… we’d hiked in the Utah desert, how close to death we’d come,for me to find the one vanishing handprint that … the next world’s light, faint, diffuse, placental, that readies us to emerge open-eyed into whatever body and place has … spring our thirst had conceived. You were our prayer not to die. It was then the tent wall was touched by a faint …
… Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War In the spring of 1972, a slim … But others have persisted, and some have gone on to become among the best poets of their generation. Even before … in Vietnam was 19-and-a-half (in World War II it had been 26). They had grown up in the shadow of their fathers’ …
… it out last week. It’s helped my game a lot. . . . Steve’s coming for the weekend. Okay?” “Sure , it’s okay,” Herb … to them were silent. Down a street with contemporary colonials with broad front lawns, American eagles over front … League team? Questions like those fell into a pit and died. A couple of years back he could have played an …
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… at four months old, shortly after a round of vaccinations—uncommon but not unheard of. A few months later, after another … Her parents tried everything: medications, a ketogenic diet, activated charcoal. Nothing helped. “Every time Emily … says. Seizures have long been known to worsen at certain points in the menstrual cycle. Emily’s seizures became …
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… own work, penned and printed on flimsy paper? He felt overcome, he wrote, by “a most dizzy pain, / That mingles … Fund, acknowledged on release of the report. But he also urged political and cultural leaders alike to let go of … helping this religious minority to thrive. There are, Woods points out, garbage entrepreneurs who have turned recycling …
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… Kyrgyzstan for this observation mission, not everyone welcomes the observers. That will make our job more … it was not a popular language. In fact, those of us who studied English instead of German or French were sometimes … here, in a former communist country. At one of the checkpoints there’s a fuss, and Saule gets out with the driver …