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… of the football team, and two girls. Two of his passengers died. My father, in the driver’s seat, survived almost … was a business executive. The only other women in her company worked for her. What sort of husband was a woman … sitting at a desk and looking at sheets of paper in his briefcase. My father declined every interview the firm found for …

… $3.00. Mark Twain’s Notebook. Prepared for publication with comments by Albert Bigclow Paine. New York: Harper and … the authentic historian of the American frontier, he is, also, an authentic spokesman for man wherever he lives … the “Notebook” for piecing it out: “When my physical body dies my dream body will doubtless continue its excursions …

… down a washboard gravel road—some left-of-nowhere oil company throughway punched into the Peruvian Amazon—when the … black boots, approached the car, a machine gun over his soldier. I wanted to go home. “It is routine,” Plinio said. “It … Then he said, “Look!” In the distance we saw three tiny points of light bobbing their way toward us—three Indians …

… other’s presence, vaguely yet certainly, in the way of animals on opposite sides of an open field, at night. The … for help, a proper introduction is made. Having prepared to die, the two women find themselves adrift on their … as inevitable, even desirable, that their homes should come to resemble the big-box selling floors they frequent. …

… unreasonable to assume,” I wrote in a 1985 essay called “Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War” (published in VQR, V. 63, No. … Francisco State University) proved that assumption to be false. “Best of all,” I added, “poets like [Bruce] Weigl and … questions is yes. Here is what the poets I discussed have accomplished since I wrote that essay. John Balaban has …