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Relativism in Reading [by Amanda J. Bradley]
Famously, Billy Collins in his poem “Introduction to Poetry,” laments that all students want to do “is tie the poem to a chair with rope / and torture a confession out of it.” He’s…
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“Commercial Engagement” [by J. B. Fredkin]
There is a woman on TV and I careabout what she’s selling. Pets areinvolved, wildlife, maybe the earth.In any event we’re moments away from something. A red steam enginepumps under my sternum, drives meto…
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The Wilderness Within: My Sustainable New York City Tour [by John Lane]
I just returned from a weekend visit with our two sons who live in Brooklyn. On first glance I'm one of those tourists New Yorkers disdain, looking around, taking notes and pictures, slowing down…
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“Love Poem” (for Josh) [by Greg Griffith]
I hope your boyfrienddumps youaround the same time I get famous.While I am off blowing my MacArthur on deluxe espressosand rent in the East Village. I hope that my being famous brings this poem…
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Respect for Nature; Respect for Us [by Amanda J. Bradley]
Between recently moving to the country after twenty-three years of city apartment living and teaching a course last semester called Great Themes in Literature: Nature and the Environment, I’ve become a bit of an…
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“The Whole” [by Julie Levine]
You’re tired of subdividingeverything, breakingdown the whole soyou can better understandthe whole — no one caresabout the whole becauseno one can handle the whole.You are not a personbut a series of quarks,each tendon only…
