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… my unmendable wounds … I am crying helplessly.” The passage comes from “Twenty-​one Love Poems,” and it tells us a great … and New, 1971–​2012 reads like a diary of them. Rich, who died last year, wrote in a celebrated style that makes … that is spare and powerful. Or consider “Usonian Journals 2000” where, with a keen reportorial ear, she records …

… The Many Deaths of Robert Walser The summer issue of VQR contains my essay about Robert … Europe’s German-language newspapers. But by the time he died in 1956, he was, like many writers of his type, nearly … police came and took photographs, one of which has since become something of an iconic image of the solitary, …

… churn, and that thicket of things unseen in the back. We’ll come to those in due time, every one. You do have time to … light’s about out, but he’s a loyal patron of these memorials, and I asked him, “Preacher, you know what the Bible … Were they orphans? Were they maybe sworn war brothers who died fighting side by side? With the name Thankful, it’s …

… be his. And later, due to the careless stewardship of the Compsons, part of their land was sold to help pay for Quentin’s studies at Harvard, the scene of his suicide. Yet all of this … is the most sensible and sensitive one written to date. He points out that because Faulkner wanted to attract a wider …

… science types muttering, “Is this what the new populism comes to? Apparel?” Possibly, at least if one takes a … and Bryan is only eulogized because he suffers a stroke and dies. Meanwhile, the beat still goes on in one school board … a politician campaigning on my previous sentence, nothing also could be more unrealistic. Such a candidate would …