… of ambition, the nature of their subjects makes such an outcome almost inevitable. If Lincoln’s ambition was “a little … careful attention to the observations of their peers, reveals at least some of the characteristics of ambition in its … a full-fledged theory of ambition from only two case studies, the Lincoln-Clinton parallels suggest a curious …
Poetry
… I am growing & I find this frightful that my body will become too large to live here comfortably. The earth opens for me as I always knew it … a willful child, a little bruised & if I go out I will die dreaming. IV. I had forgotten the small news of the …
Poetry
… we know two languages sun and moon when sun speaks we come back to our bodies we start a new journey by nightfall it is always the same we had to die a little to get there when moon speaks we do not …
Fiction
… dolphin tails were horizontal, not upright; they were mammals, not fish. She returned the pen. I said thank you. On … to reach me. I wrote down the phone number for my hostel’s common room. He took me back to the receptionist and told … to a different room or left the university or maybe even died. In her place came a new girl. I had hardly seen the …
Essays
… Other Stories , McKittrick imagines groove, heard or embodied, as a song’s “theoretical frame.” Think of James … It returns listeners to the play and freedom of Black communal affinity in verse one, and its syllabic bounce … , both have stems—fortress-like walls—which frame gathering points and protected enclosures. Perhaps I am both someone …
Criticism
… B. Lee, By Robert W. Winston. New York: William Morrow and Company. $4.00. The American hero is strong rather than … these cultures have flowered patricians, some of whom have also been patriots. These patrician patriots have not … a better as well as more familiar picture of the great soldier than the heavy jawed if handsome lieutenant colonel of …