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Quot Quot El Salvador
5,073 wordsCarolyn Forche? is known as a political poet, calling herself a " poet of witness" [source]. Growing up in Detroit in the 1950 s, poet Carolyn Forche? recalls discovering photographs from a Nazi concentration camp in Look Magazine. After her mother confiscated the journal and hid it, young Forche re-confiscated it, marking perhaps the beginning of a poetic vocation devoted to exposing tyranny, injustice, and bearing witness to the atrocities of the 20 th century. Born one of seven chil...
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Quot Im Boston Northeastern
2,031 wordsPeter Stitt INTERVIEWER: In The Dream Songs there is a passage about assistant professors becoming associate professors by working on your poems. How do you feel about being cannon fodder for aspiring young critics and graduate students? As for the graduate students, some of the work they do is damned interesting. A woman somewhere in the South did an eighty-page thesis investigating the three little epigraphs to the 77 Dream Songs and their bearing on the first three books of the poem. I must s...
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Member Of Society Scene Of The Play
1,303 wordsLee to Austin, " I mean you never had any more on the ball than I did. But here you are gettin invited into prominent peoples houses. Sittin around talkin like you know somethin? In fact I been inside some pretty classy places in my time. And I never even went to an Ivy League school either. " In the play " True West" Austin, the protagonist, is a kinetic character. In the beginning of the play he is depicted as being a prominent, upper class member of society, but throughout...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar James Weldon Johnson
6,573 wordsOn " The Creation" And Gods Trombones Essay, On " The Creation" And Gods Trombones EXPLANATION: " The Creation" Line This version of the story of creation offers an image of God who is more like humans than traditional Old Testament portrayals of Him. God is sometimes referred to as " the uncaused cause" or " the prime mover, " indicating that the actions of God cannot be traced to any previous reason, as part of the definition of God. But Johnso...
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House On Mango Street Sandra Cisneros
1,634 wordsJane Juffer In the introduction to Alfred A. Knopf's 1994, ten-year anniversary reprinting of her House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros recalls what initially inspired the now internationally acclaimed novel. As a graduate student in the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, Cisneros felt alienated by discussion of Gaston Bachelards Poetics of Space. She says, " What was this guy talking about when he mentioned the familiar and comforting house of memory? It was obvious he never had to clea...
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4,670 wordsBuilt for Speed? Methamphetamine has reclaimed a place in the lexicon of " party" drugs. Hailed by nocturnal adventurers, condemned by raver idealists, is speed a sleepless dream or an addictive nightmare? by Brian Otto Here at the end of the millennium, the pace of modern life seems fleeting a whirl of minutes, hours and days. In dealing with the changes, humans have equipped themselves with the tools to move faster, more efficiently. At the same time a dependence for the marketing, h...
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