Illegal deportations to an El Salvadoran prison are bringing to mind a similar episode in “Rinki-Tink in Oz.”
Author Archives: Robin Bates
On Deportations and an Oz Book
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Open the Door for Elijah
Marge Piercy applauds the uncomfortable Elijah in this Passover poem.
Trump CEOs and Plantation Mentality
Trump-supporting CEOs have a plantation mentality, which explains why they tolerate him. Think “Gone with the Wind” entitlement.
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Libraries, Bulwarks against Fascism
In which I celebrate National Library Week by talking about the power of books to radically change lives. No wonder MAGA conservatives are suspicious.
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Hats Off, the Flag Is Passing By!
Old patriotic poems, which as teenagers we dismissed as cheesy, seem particularly urgent in the face of rising authoritarianism.
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Wendell Berry’s Sabbath Vision
In this fine talk Andrea Sanders explores Wendell Berry’s vision of Sabbath, with slide glances at Dillard, Thoreau, Dickinson, and others.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Sabbath Poems", "That's how the light gets in", "The World Is Too Much with Us", Andrea Sanders, Annie Dillard, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Leonard Cohen, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walden, Wendell Berry, William Wordsworth Comments closed
How Swift Would Respond to Trump
Think of Trump trying to impress the giant king in “Gulliver’s Travels” by talking big–and note how the king, rather than impressed, is horrified.
