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Love Song for the Mother of No Children
… You remembered her in a red dress and white sandals, Oleta before Dorrie and Elia died, arms bare, toenails painted. She dropped her sandals … her brother’s veins to find its way inside his bones and become part of him. When she said she was going to die, it …
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Dreams of Poetry
… Dreams of Poetry Istockphoto.com/Skrohn27   My initiation into contemporary poetry began … to transport us to worlds we never knew existed while also forcing us to look at our familiar surroundings anew, … scruffy underdog—the poem that, for all its accomplishment, points toward still bigger things. Considering all this …
Silence Follows: Albert Camus in Algeria
… But these three men were stage scenery for the man who embodied the increasingly forlorn hope that their two worlds … horrific: women’s breasts were sliced off; men’s genitals were stuffed into their mouths. France’s response was … of the absurd, just as his editorship of the newspaper Combat had made him the voice of the French Resistance. …
Affirmative Action and the Idea of A University
… verdict I cannot greet with a shrug. My interest in the outcome is both personal and professional, since I am part of … undergraduate college’s quantitative policy of assigning points for race. In this way, affirmative action need not, … last chance, its proponents argue, to move the pieces (or bodies) around on the playing board, handicapping some, so …
Truth Is So
… new doctrine in the present work, “The Realm of Truth”; the comments on the topic of Truth contained in his previous … woven word” as he himself has called it, still cloaks the “common sense” materialism in its now familiar form. It is a … Santayana, there is no problem about Truth. Truth is “the complete ideal description of existence,” “passive” and …
Dispersions and Freedom: The Situation of Contemporary Poetry
… old feud between the artist and the smugger portions of the community revived with some virulence for the welfare of … their connotations, seems to make in some of his poems a studied attempt to combine as many dictions as possible. One … inhabit a moment of dispersions. Rather than meeting upon points of controversy, we range widely in many directions. …
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