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Marcus Aurelius and More on Dapple [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, Still giving a lot of thought to dapple. It has dawned on me that beyond the biology of aesthetics, the dapple is ample in meaning. It is a little madness of…
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Don’t Kill Yourself by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
SDH: I was looking through my copy of Elizabeth Bishop's The Complete Poems: 1927-1979 for the publication date of "One Art" so I could respond to Dean Rader's challenge when I found Bishop's translation of…
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Four Contemporary American Indian Poets You May Not Know But Should [by Dean Rader]
The work being done by a new generation of Native American poets is among the most exciting in American poetry. One of my favorite recent collections is Heid Erdrich's National Monuments. Her poem "The…
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The Corrections
What, in two words, is wrong with this sentence from Jonathan Culler's "Introduction: Critical Paradigms" in the October 2010 issue of the PMLA: <<The future of literary criticism will doubtless depend, in part, on…
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Leon Uris and the Power of Words (by Larry Epstein)
It's been fifty years since the film version of Exodus was released. I first read the book when I was thirteen, and, though I didn't know history well enough to grasp the full power…
