Essays
… Mother Country A Parent's Complicated Repatriation After moving to California, in … her life, that she would not have to work until the day she died. In California, with her children finally grown, Mom … resembling her younger self, me, or my brother. She also constructed woodblocks, stamps, and art books. It …
… sprang from what was least mature in his character. His ideals of conduct—courage and unselfishness—are present, to be … that the derivative poet cannot free his life, so far as it comes to expression in his poems, from bondage to the … colonists with “some well-dressed gentlemen and well-fed ladies . . . Who spent their years despairing of the Republic …
Interviews
… over a period of six months. The app itself is free and comes stocked with two brief videos as well a prologue to … a lot of buzz lately due to the launch of Kindle Serials. Yes, your app has multimedia/geolocation elements, but … spots; all it takes is one motivated reporter plus an audience of curious readers. So the Midwest can’t get the …
… it never ends? I like your resolves—clear and neat like a compass and map in articulate hands: to get out of the …
Poetry
… The Exile’s Tale The country I come from is far to the north: our wedding dresses are lined … winter sleep, whose dreams, in the religion of my land, comprise the human soul. In my country the snow lies as deep …
… participate by sitting still for two hours and a half is a commonplace. We all know it. We all submit to it more or … no nourishment in it. To contend that a man dying from a diet of nicely boxed sawdust must like it because he eats … etiquette, counsellors in the ways of success, guides in morals, and purveyors of health and vigor is only a phase of …