Essays
… erotic poetry and war poetry. The two modes have more in common than we might think. Poets craft their singular … do to a man. Say you are twenty years old. Say your father died and you felt cut adrift. Say, as Richard Hugo does, … the crowd of the bloody forms of soldiers–the yard outside also fill’d; Some on the bare ground, some on planks or …
Reporting
… Patrol’s practice of running permanent and temporary checkpoints within the 100-mile-zone, as well as the agency’s … said Mitra Ebadolahi, a staff attorney with the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties’ Border Litigation Project. … zone. Terry Bressi, an Arizona resident who has run a website chronicling his interactions with DHS agents since …
… term about a divine element in the bread that is eaten at communion and the wine that is drunk is no more here than … to transcend.” The 60’s report that literary humanism had died, it now appears, was happily premature; a revival of … knows that blue is blue or that yellow is yellow. He will also say that the best thing to do next in an experiment is …
Reporting
… sliding rear door as soon as the skids hit the dirt. The comings and goings of aircraft are a welcome interruption to … endemic tsetse fly. Deprived of access to these pharmaceuticals, the herders wouldn’t be able to keep their cattle alive … Chinko area, despite the presence of hundreds of Ugandan soldiers in the region who are supported by US Special Forces. …
… Policy, and the Uses of History Even before the last U. S. combat troops departed from Vietnam, Americans were … they enjoyed in the political history of Vietnam, an ingredient not easily replicated elsewhere. The • conservative … analogies, it can be even more instructive. Numerous points might be made. Let me suggest just a few. The mindset …
City Sky Line Painted on A Blind Eye Just before November, young woman bending over, mending you can’t see what. Straight from the nuns, Catholic kid, at a black sewing machine, old fashioned kind. Blind crow pecking path-edge for star crumbs the children …