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Dark Bird What do you want with me today, dark bird? Why are you flying low, beneath that branch? I know your shadow: you were long since gone, My killdeer, rough-winged swallow, mourning dove, Death plays its flute with all your bones, dark bird, You …

… New Meanings in Recent American Poetry The common objection to poetry is not distaste (as is so often … lately deceased, is a popular funeral sermon. But it is as false as it is premature. Far from being moribund, poetry in … part of our common property. . . , Using as material studies in symbolism, studies in individual lives, and the …

… Still big breasted but now with missing teeth due to a diet of candy kept in thin plastic bags and warm Coke or … twenty-​four-​ounce plastic mug. She is my grandmother, but also forever the daughter of a “Chinaman” and an educated … day he left, the same way I remember when he first started coming around Alexandria driving slow in his father’s truck …

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… Jubilant America America’s Jubilee: How in 1826 a Generation Remembered Fifty Years of Independence. By … ahead lay civil war. For them, as for us, the past was a comfort.” Challenging the fashions of conventional … double apotheosis of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who died within hours of each other on the nation’s 50th …