… but its image haunts Heaney and he can imagine, when he dies, his soul following its vanished roots into the earth. … written distinctive books which treat, among other things, compelling events in their own or their families’ histories. … the present, into a reciprocal, inevitable-seeming unity. 262-276 By Peter Harris …
… Southern as Thomas Nelson Page, have in various ways been committed to abstraction. What else but abstraction was the … the States. Even Johnson’s favorite uncle, a good soldier who had ridden with Wheeler’s cavalry, told him as a … was an editorial writer for the Baltimore Sunpapers from 1926 to 1943, a contributing editor of the New Republic for a …
Essays
… Other Stories , McKittrick imagines groove, heard or embodied, as a song’s “theoretical frame.” Think of James … It returns listeners to the play and freedom of Black communal affinity in verse one, and its syllabic bounce … , both have stems—fortress-like walls—which frame gathering points and protected enclosures. Perhaps I am both someone …
Fiction
… each poem, the poet flung the paper plate into the audience like a Frisbee. People reached up and caught them … the reading was over, she left it on the floor. Other audience members, though, took their paper plates with them. … off the motor. He got off the seat, and made the kickstand come down. “Goodnight. Thanks,” she said, running to her …
Criticism
… B. Lee, By Robert W. Winston. New York: William Morrow and Company. $4.00. The American hero is strong rather than … these cultures have flowered patricians, some of whom have also been patriots. These patrician patriots have not … a better as well as more familiar picture of the great soldier than the heavy jawed if handsome lieutenant colonel of …
… Without a Common Denominator One Times One. By E. E. Cummings. Henry … quad-rivium, and enjoying his family. (On the former two points, see the same author’s delightful … humorously mordant “Mexico Is a Foreign Country: Five Studies in Naturalism.” (By contrast, “Variations: Ode to Fear” …