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… as a solitary singer or the leader of a band, he’d wish to command the stage with the same sweaty genius as the guitar … ago. For a poet who dreamed of pressing close to his audience and possessing their very best, rock ’n’ roll would … test for generational experiences and values. At different points in the 19th and 20th centuries he has been a prophet …

… with the mushy green spittle and the acrid stink that had accompanied the ostrich catcher’s habit for the day and night … of Aden. Deserts were the birthplaces of prophets but also the playgrounds of jinns and shape-shifters. He had … alight with brightly colored straw mats. Jama lay down obediently but couldn’t stop his eyes from roving around. “Do …

… what those lost enthrallments meant. He knows they weren’t false, though behind the last unlocked knob, a chalk-faced …

… the Industrial Workers of the World and the mine owners had complained that union activities interfered with “getting … speakers at Liberty Loan rallies openly called their audiences pro-German and threatened to denounce them to the … expelled from that body. What amounted to heresy trials were held all over the country, directed especially …

… the bulbous nose—with a self-deprecating anecdote for his audience. Thanks to the fairy tales his own mother had read to … Austria, making it impossible to verify. However, it was completely plausible that a scholar of this stature would be … their death.” As his former student Ronald Angres astutely points out: “Structurally speaking, his implied attack on …