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Ill Nature
… an omen. Its white-blue ice had given water to all thirteen communities of Quispillaccta in Peru and, to women and men … a decade of political violence. The Shining Path, a Communist guerrilla front, sprang from the region in 1980, … with gifts: a yellow plastic wine bottle, chocolate candies, a mechanical pencil, coca leaves. Lidia pulled a …
Hymn to Demeter
… the hills their clear-cut lines, But always nigh Her trials a shadow in pools of light, And it is I. She is more … red berry On a winter thorn. Old ballads tell, when lovers died, How their desire Sprang from the grave and twined … sky With the brightest dawn that has ever dawned, Before we die. 547-548 By W. Force Stead …
Notes on Current Books
… smashing the Japs at Lac and Snlamnun, destroying a Jap ffcet at Tuagi and the Coral Sea battle, from Misima to … Putnam $2 A Layman’s Guide to Naval Strategy, by Bernard Brodie, The average reader will do well to turn to this book … and Georges Lemaitre are represented. As Nr. Le-maitre points out in his Foreword to the book, this, better than …
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Return They told you that their enemies surrounded the women, the countless rapes fifteen miles from the border, even on the outskirts around camps, how the women speak little, their smiles like broken carts. They told you even though they are alive, …
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I Masturbate Then Pray to God
… light laptop light graphic light  leaking liquid crystals frosted red-green-blue  chromatics throbbing until I … I masturbate  then pray to God after the shame-hate-spiral comes  like a call I deny I send the voicemail to my chest … to find unmitigated pleasure like when I fly I fear  I will die every time and my therapist tells me to accept  this …
Notes on Current Books, Spring 1997
… of the national electorate wanted at the time, the outcome seems inevitable. That is, after all, how democracy … obscure beginnings in the second century through their medieval zenith in Western Europe to the 20th century, when … by W. C. Corsan, edited by Benjamin H. Trask. Louisiana $26.95 Corsan was a Sheffield steel maker and merchant, who …
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