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The Criminal Record
… City. Behind the high wall of the police-headquarters complex, the cars are piled three, four, even five high, their rusted bodies giving the area around them the feel of a junkyard. For … nor has he been captured by any branch of the same. October 26, 1972: Information is released that he is not detained by …
What Is A Writer?
… for more than two decades but mainly because I have studied other writers for roughly the same period of time. And … equation, a formula to explain what a writer is. Recently I completed a book on Herman Melville, and with the writing of … An editorial on madness and creativity in The New Yorfc Times (Oct. 15, 1993) notes: “An increasing number of …
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New Scaffolding for New Arrangements
… as well as the what, and in changing the how great poetry also changes the what. —Kevin Hart, interview He didn’t have … knew at least how to say it. Cold comfort. (“Buffalo Yoga”) Poets who dwell in the same style … John Ashbery, Frank Bidart, and Hayden Carruth) have made a compelling strategy out of the long line, only C. K. …
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Congrats to Nicholas Schmidle! (And to all of VQR’s reporters)
… on the quality of writing and investigative effort, but also on the level of courage and resourcefulness … the Knight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism for a website developed in association with the Pulitzer Center to accompany his story “ Learning to Speak .” (Recently …
Notes on Current Books, Autumn 1984
… of this controversial account insists that the German soldier was everywhere more than a match for the British and … of Henry James , by Paul B. Armstrong. North Carolina $26 After a rather weak, syllogistic, and unnecessary … is the best reading of that novel to date, and one that points to an important new way of understanding the meaning …
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Dark Bird
Dark Bird What do you want with me today, dark bird? Why are you flying low, beneath that branch? I know your shadow: you were long since gone, My killdeer, rough-winged swallow, mourning dove, Death plays its flute with all your bones, dark bird, You …
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