… lit fusewire touches the trunk and the tree turns over dies to the last twig. This is not a sequoia with defense … the green green of cypress. The tree is unstable at once becomes danger to a vast circumference and the boring begins, …
… approaches strictly contemporary history, the “archive” becomes for all practical purposes inexhaustible and literally … from the episodic, or the parabola of change from the datapoints scattered on the grid of historical interpretation … Most of the émigrés discussed in “The Sea Change” have died within the last decade, but almost every reader of the …
Poetry
… by a web of caves; they must have seemed like catacombs, in 1863, to the woman sitting in her parlor, … explode, writing herself into history, asking what is to become of all the living things in this place? This … on the bluffs, draped in flowers—funereal—a blur of petals against the river’s gray. The brochure in my room …
Essays
… exactly a year ago, I wrote an article for VQR about an unaccompanied minor—one who crossed the border without papers or … Frydman of San Francisco’s Center for Gender and Refugee Studies. “We congratulate EOIR on this important step but we … more migration north? Frankel, of the Young Center, points out that an estimated 90,000 children are projected …
… move, just lies still and soaks into the grass. Game injury comes in multiple ways, always all of a sudden. It can be … play, and no one knows the guy is down until it’s over. Bodies scramble as the play evolves; formations collapse, … teammate, Jason Callahan, my bunkmate the night before, all 260 Ibs., rolled over my ankle and pulled me down. I …
… the consciousness of Americans, whose life is dominated by competitive values, a metaphoric imagery of athletic … Winning in a football game is defined as scoring more points than the opposition, not by the lessons in … of destruction. One wonders if even these mindless audiences who responded with such childish enthusiasm to …