Criticism & Theory
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Adrienne Rich

One rainy day in the spring of 1960, the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan arrived at my door, sent to me by our mutual friend Denise Levertov. I had a ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adrienne Rich

Altogether the angels arrive for the chorus in rapidly grabbed robes they snatch scores of hallelujahs complicit with television cameras they bend down their eyes. However they sing their voices ...
( Category: LGBT February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adrienne Rich

Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts After the text of my letter to Jane Alexander, then chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, had been fragmentarily ...
( Category: Essays February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-18 | Author:Walt Whitman

By the city’s quadrangular houses . . . . in log-huts, or camping with lumbermen, Along the ruts of the turnpike . . . . along the dry gulch and ...
( Category: Literary Criticism February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-07 | Author:Francis Wheen [Francis Wheen]

8 Candles in the wind Ours is an evangelical culture. So many people convinced that they’ve been saved by Jesus, cured by homeopathy or the laying on of hands, abducted ...
( Category: United States February 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 1989-12-04 | Author:Wilde, Oscar; Murray, Isobel;

SALOME THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY HEROD° ANTIPAS, TETRARCH° OF JUDÆA IOKANAAN,° THE PROPHET THE YOUNG SYRIAN, CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD TIGELLINUS, A YOUNG ROMAN A CAPPADOCIAN A NUBIAN FIRST ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory December 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Shirley Hazzard

WILLIAM MAXWELL In his eighties, William Maxwell told me, “I love being old.” By then, Bill Maxwell had recurrent and sometimes serious bodily infirmities. His mind and spirit were perhaps ...
( Category: Essays November 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-03 | Author:Melissa Ambrosini

Exercise with Heart Movement is the other key element of feeling fabulously healthy. I used to exercise out of fear of getting fat. I have never been seriously overweight, but ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory November 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-21 | Author:Tina D. Eliopulos

Unfortunately statistics show that about half of the marriages in the United States end in divorce. Like marriage and childbirth, divorce can create a great deal of change in your ...
( Category: Poetry November 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Frank Kermode

There’s something in his soul O’er which his melancholy sits on brood, And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose Will be some danger … (iii.1.166 ff) This has ...
( Category: Essays September 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-16 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates

That there was something inside Fern I didn’t know. That I didn’t know her in the way I’d always thought I did. That Fern had secrets and not the good ...
( Category: Modern September 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-15 | Author:Paul Mariani

1941: With the New Year Laughlin brought out a slim pamphlet of Williams’ poems in his Poet of the Month Series. It was sixteen pages long and Williams called it ...
( Category: United States September 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Mark Greif

Another obstacle to identifying with hip-hop at the moment it was turning into an epochal art form was the lethal quality of African-American city life in the late 1980s and ...
( Category: Modern September 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 1990-12-31 | Author:Immanuel Kant

( Category: Renaissance August 20,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jesmyn Ward

Da Art of Storytellin’ (a Prequel) KIESE LAYMON From six in the morning until five in the afternoon, five days a week, for thirty years, my grandmama Catherine’s fingers, palms, ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism August 4,2016 )