Here’s a poem for anyone who has experience the ecstasy of running at twilight.
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Running at Twilight
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Life Is Bigger Than Flesh
Wendell Berry’s “Testament” can console those who have lost loved ones.
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The Killer Always Comes Back
This Scott Bates poem explores the dark side of those Americans that are drawn to guns and gun violence.
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Swift and Food Stamp Cuts
What would Jonathan Swift say to GOP radicals who seek to cut food stamps.
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Lit’s Ten Most Sensitive Guys
To match my 10 strongest literary women characters, here are my 10 most sensitive male characters.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Charles Dickens, Cormac McCarthy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry Fielding, Herman Melville, James Baldwin, Jane Austen, John Milton, John Steinbeck Comments closed
I Have Found My Sheep that Was Lost
Dickens draws on the parable of the lost sheep in shaping “David Copperfield.”
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Manziel: Whom the Gods Would Destroy…
Johnny Manziel has “Greek tragic hero” written all over him.
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In Praise of Irreverent Squirrels
This Scott Bates poem about autumn also captures his irreverence for authority.
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