Essays
… T-shirts or towels toward the rescue they believe will come. Cages like open coffins descend from helicopters, and … wretched surprises this water will have in store for our bodies when the evidence of it recedes. In a press conference, … to get paid, or to expect to be repaid, even in karma points, for everything you do. You can let some of it be a …
… his German shepherd and blank stare, I know where I am. I also know fog is water vapor spewed when moist air cools to … billion viruses would fill one Ping-Pong ball. I know. And also the vermilion hull of a sailboat named Wayfarer’s Song … I have never felt so strongly before that the world has become nothing but an image of what is inside me. I’ll walk …
… same route—through politics. In October 1883, when he was 26 and in his first term of graduate study at Johns Hopkins … in a memorable remark. But because he lacked private income, he explained, law would have unfitted himself for … and graduate lecture courses, where covering bodies of material was required, he performed with competence …
… not knowing it meant how much in me I didn’t feel could come forward, not in this life. About Cather: she has … The red-earth dryness only told her how easily one could die of thirst, that for me released an inner fragrance in … things. I think you and I could walk there, our scrawny bodies somehow sure of carrying enough in them to get us to …
… Poetry Going and Coming Pocms. By W. H. Audcn. New York: Random House. $2.50. … times as valuable. His work is much immersed in CAI, but is also emergent. One moment it is a tangled mess of seaweed in … and form was strange, Not human, for I saw it would not die, But last forever and forever change. This is not quite …
… attitude; this we may learn from Mr. Krutch, who has studied it in “The Modern Temper.” Modernism is a progressive … is skepticism and disillusionment, and ends in despair. We come to such a degree of self-consciousness that we question … of his mind. He presents his story preferably from the points of view of a succession of interested characters. …