… himself, for help, asking How long? What road? Will I die like this, choking on dust, coughing blood, shuffling my … names fade, one by one, into the dark beyond the window. 261-262 By Len Roberts …
… After Giles learned the letters, he ate them, and they become both a literal and metaphoric part of his being. Next … a hornbook on which he inscribed a syllabary. The hornbook also quickly disappeared, for when Gaffer Gingerbread … a 19th-century Giles Gingerbread. Although James Murray’s diet was more substantial than Giles’s sugared texts, he too …
… from How Beautiful the Beloved * Doesn’t the soldier serve The state? Isn’t that his Or her job? Doesn’t He … we had to be morbid. The Book said the beloved died, But also that she comes again, That he’s reborn as words. The Book said: …
Criticism
… T. Geronimo Johnson’s ‘Welcome to Braggsville’: On Race, Culture, and the War Within At the end of Welcome to Braggsville , his ambitious new novel about a group … perspective on a crucial event in the book. Johnson also includes a glossary, at once mocking and serious, as …
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… before leaving the house unfinished at his death in 1826. Throughout, Jefferson’s declared love for the … many different purposes and, not least, with a national audience in mind. The symbol of the ideally constructed house … Monticello is a virtual glass house with vistas to all points of the compass from the open expanse of its first …