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Don Freas Guest Author July 27-31
This week we welcome Don Freas as our guest author. Don is a poet and sculptor, and was a furniture designer-craftsman for forty years. Raised in Pennsylvania, he migrated in 1972 to the Pacific…
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Apocalyptic Vision: Yeats’s “The Second Coming” [by David Lehman]
PHOTO: YAO XIAO If our age is apocalyptic in mood—and rife with doomsday scenarios, nuclear nightmares, religious fanatics and suicidal terrorists—there may be no more chilling statement of our condition than William Butler Yeats’s poem “The…
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Criticism Continued/Painting and Writing [by Anna Cypra Oliver]
(Ed note: this is the final post in Anna Cypra Oliver's series about writing and painting. Find yesterday's post here. sdh.) CRITICISM CONTINUED A family legend grew up around my grandfather, which told of…
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Tales of the Eighties: “Thronging Pilgrims…” [by Alan Ziegler]
1984: I meet Erin at a Christmas party, and we get serious quickly. Erin comes from a devoutly religious family. Her father, Paul, is a church organist, composer of liturgical music, and music school…
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Painting Continued/Criticism/ [by Anna Cypra Oliver]
(Ed note: This is the fourth in a series by Anna Cypra Oliver. Find yesterday's post here. sdh) PAINTING CONTINUED I keep at it, after the first course ends, and a second, as Stephan drifts…
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On Children’s Birthday Parties, by E. L. Doctorow (1931-2015)
The day was momentous, but parties were mixed blessings. You got presents, all right—pick-up sticks, or crayons, or flat boxes of modeling clay in many colored strips—but they were the lesser presents…
