Essays
… me back into the poem, is bringing me back into the community of all who would read the poem, though it may be … having left Columbia in the fall of 1969, Adrienne would also teach at City College of CUNY in an ardent commitment … the year of the North Vietnamese Tet offensive and the bloodiest year of the Vietnam War, 11,000 Americans were killed …
Criticism
… Book Notes Current Events Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe, by James J. Sheehan. Houghton Mifflin, January 2008. $26 Using the Iraq War as a counterpoint, James Sheehan sets … and Korean as well as Irish, Italian, and Jewish viewpoints are offered. She draws on many personal accounts by …
… sah. Hit’s ten miles from Wild Cherry to Cedar Hill. Is I comin’ back tonight?” “No, you gump! tomorrow. You’ll stay … whether I goes—” “That, William, is your reputation. Who steals my purse steals trash, but who steals my … ever looked into, but he saw it, he saw it! Old Mr. Dollins died long ago—folk had ‘most torn the place up looking and …
Essays
… from my first cousin to the daughter of a duke; no lord compels me to marry a girl or widow from the manor, no … Not subject to the persecutions of ecclesiastical busybodies, I decide that it would be pleasant to take a young … of the oppressed is perhaps the most inexplicable, as it is also the most important, fact in all history), have been …
… to realize how early there had appeared what has become one of the most curious phenomena of the subsequent … at the rationalization of specific industries as were embodied in the oil legislation or the Guffey Act. The mechanism … today may not differ greatly from what they were in 1926, that celebrated heaven of the “normal.” It is folly to …
Criticism
… peek at any of the previously published reviews or online commentaries. I have no idea what other people think of … killed himself, so it wasn’t discovered the same day he died. In addition, the bottle was discovered in Virginia … “Go ahead and ask him about this.” Fingal duly points out his discoveries, then inquires if D’Agata would …