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… diversity has ceased to be something to be feared and has become something to be celebrated. The ideal of heterogeneity … by Daniel Aaron). Now the subject of numerous studies in biography and in intellectual history, Douglass has … against pluralism. A NEXIS scouring of major newspapers reveals that “multicultural” and its variations showed up in 40 …
… jar, a label in her own hand, Raspberry, 1982, the year she died. I spread jam on bread, and close my eyes. 7. Leaf … of autumn. ( for Irene Drachowski, 1914—1982 ) 259-261 By William Heyen …
Poetry
… was eleven. Deacon Josiah Haynes was seventy-nine when he died under British gunfire. You can see, I’m reading … Revolution, filled with moments like this: “There were also accounts of British officers slicing off the faces of … for bayoneting the chests of surrendering soldiers, and we come to think life is the pain of military violence. Of …
Criticism
… But to capture in a few hundred pages the richness and complexity and sheer cussedness of American life seems an … narrative status whether or not it set out to be one. He points to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter as such a book, frequently referred to, pastiched, and parodied. Script number two … centers on the life story of a …
… and dropped out of gymnasium at age 16.After an uninspiring commercial apprenticeship he finished school and then began studies in Romance and German philology. Next, he exchanged … account of Victor and Eva Klemperer’s life under Nazism but also provide an unvarnished picture of thoughts and …
… Speculative, daring, and sometimes melodious, it has become the register of some of the most independent minds. … notion of the mainstream, the currents of which are “commonness” (p. xix), displacement of “all that had been … mildly twitted for his obligations to the English metaphysicals, yet despite that, he has written in an American …