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  • Untitled May 29, 2012
    Stanford professor and poetry critic Marjorie Perloff makes a striking defense of avant-garde poetry—attacking in the effort strains of mainstream lyricing—in the current Boston Review. The magazine has made the entire fluid essay available on-line. In “Poetry on the Brink,” Perloff begins by framing contemporary poetry as a career move and lays down the for […]
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  • Compiled Text RE: Chen Guangcheng May 11, 2012
    (Sources:  BBC, CBC, CNN, The Korean Herald, MSNBC, NPR, The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Weekly Standard, Wired, a student from my class) In 2006…a four-year jail sentence….On his release…put under house arrest…and for the next 19 months…kept a prisoner in his own home, sometimes severely beaten As the Chen Guangcheng inc […]
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  • Editor’s Note for The Gender Issue … It’s Almost Here March 3, 2012
    The phantom of the man-who-would-understand,     the lost brother, the twin—            [....] the comrade/twin whose palm                                           would bear a lifeline like our own:            [....] merely a fellow creature           [...]
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