… By George Garrett. Louisiana State University Press. $26.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. D ays of Our Lives Lie in … some of his strongest work and convey a sense of his having come to terms with what he has to say and how he will say … achieves with the slight pauses he introduces at critical points, as when he says “in a graveyard, maybe , whistling …
… of the teaching corps an indispensable element of the common school revival in Massachusetts between 1837 and 1848 … and in diffusing information about methods “of arranging studies and conducting the education of the young.” Horace Mann … a limitation even upon its male administrative class. 411-426 By Redding S. Sugg …
Essays
… as if the current had reset something and she was just coming back online. Mary Anne was fun—unpredictable and … garlic from his garden,” she said matter-of-factly. He’d died the year before and she’d taken his death hard; her … new stepson, then cooks him up for family dinner. Mantel points out that the “father devours his own son with …
Fiction
… America with the belief that his American dream was already coming true. But my father often says that his life began … the Akinola discount. We will hold it for you. When are you coming?” Tayo and I loved talking with Dad’s coworkers … a job in America because of her foreign academic credentials. She needn’t have worried. She found a job in less than …
… Guard. And the country bucks from Flatwoods district, Stinchcombe and Dewy Rose, throttling their way over bad roads in … at them. Just look at them. Wa’n’t they a pretty sight? Soldiers, Slew-footed, knock-kneed, double-jointed. Her caustic mind made fine points of their disabilities as they, formed hollow squares …
Poetry
… Stillbirth At minus two months, Pablo Casals heard his mother playing cello: strings droning on the … around the lurching crystal ball, her belly. Brother who died before the page was turned, how much of this did you …