… dreaming creator and to a devoted posterity. In its unique combination of infamy and obscurity, that person’s case … specifications for it. His reply to Godwin, never bodied forth, was to be “a six shilling octavo” but “to … is only into a void beyond reference to mankind’s compass-points, into rarity unsustaining to the blood; and their …
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… / Flickr The following post is part of our online companion to our Spring 2013 issue on The Business of … neither of which seemed available to me in New York. I also knew if I stayed in publishing, I’d eventually stop … college with a degree in Government and Afro-American Studies, and after I returned home, my mother immediately …
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… The Actress and The Comedienne (Or “Free Lunch”) Renée S / Flickr The … You know what? The other day, I called her up,” she points to the Actress, “and I asked her if she ever touches … The Actress and The Comedienne (Or “Free Lunch”) …
… Beaches In Winter We know our dreams as we come to know our weaknesses, with the soft familiarity of … I suspect I will continue dreaming of them until the day I die. As dreams go, the prospect is not particularly … illusion by making me acknowledge my limitations. But it also soothed, as nature is supposed to soothe. One can …
… rocking us toward day. In the engine room there are 15 dials to watch; I check their stories every 20 minutes … necks tied to a string, who now rests somewhere in the complex currents off Point Patience where the pirates used … all her sixth-grade sailors whom she cannot save, but will comfort through the cold night watches while they try to …
… varying portraits of her could well be collected in a comparative volume such as Samuel Schoenbaum produced in … the late 1970’s there have been an increasing number of studies of the relationship between Dickinson’s femininity and … Dickinson hunting, but his critical vocabulary continually points to the poet’s sexual status at the same time that it …