Category: shaman
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Luisetta Mudie’s Climate Change and the Poetic Imagination
_____ Editor’s note: As we are challenged in the world by the scientific and technological changes we produce, a line of thinking has been emerging that the English language is not up to the task of allowing us to communicate well enough to address important issues as they arise. And because of the nature […]
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Alley War Poetry
_____ Marvelous Marvin Hagler vs. Thomas “The Hit Man” Hearns Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, April 15, 1985 Announcers: Al Bernstein and Al Michaels Alley War Poetry The pugilists are in the desert, somewhere far from most of humanity and society. They are at a resort, however, a […]
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Misplaced Leisure Water: The Displaced Function of Poetry
In a Books Inq. blog post from yesterday, the Philadelphia Inquirer’s books editor, Frank Wilson, linked to this item in Poetry Magazine: Does Poetry Have a Social Function? Here is some of what he wrote: On New Year’s Eve, one of our dinner guests, a beautiful Chinese woman, read several classical […]