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… 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 …

… 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 …

… manuscripts, documents, letters, and filmscripts that complement the “uncollected” stories and selected letters of … in 1665, and more immediately with Joseph Falkner, who died circa 1842, and ending, for all practical purposes with … of The Sound and the Fury. It is curious, as Williamson points out, that while William Faulkner knew his extended …

… and recurrent movements in modernist poetry that had in common a wish to exalt the senses, especially the sense of … of reason. Eliot, who gave us the “objective correlative,” also praised Donne because his thought was as immediate to … and modern history: I Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side. There it …

… Report, an accident, a murder, or “natural causes,” all bodies express this downwardness when we remove them from this … until we can get the bag around the body and zip it up, communicating in short statements: “His arm . . . Watch the … We often mull over the case reports that provide crucial points of information in their descent. We read them and …