Richard Crashaw calls out those religious leaders who, like the pampered scribes attacked by Jesus, devour widows’ houses. We’ve got our own hypocritical Christians today.
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On Christians Who Devour the Poor
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The Political Results of Collective Amnesia
Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children” describes the kind of amnesia following a traumatic incident that may help explain one of the reasons why Trump beat Biden.
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Stop the Clocks: This Is the Hour of Lead
Auden’s mourning poem “Stop All the Clocks” captures the mood of those who saw a fascist triumph in the American presidential election.
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Caliban Defeats Prospero
It’s Prospero vs. Caliban in America, with Caliban having a very good chance of triumphing.
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America: Indivisible Despite the Divides
As the American election hangs in the balance, Alicia Ostriker holds two contradictory visions of America in balance.
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Kamala Harris as Shakespeare’s Henry V
Kamala Harris resembles Shakespeare’s Henry V in some important ways.
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Ruth: Dreaming of a Sister of the Mind
Piercy’s “The Book of Ruth and Naomi” explores the love between the two women.
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Halloween: “Purring in My Haunted Ear”
For Halloween, here’s one of the scariest poems that I know. In it, Robert Graves recalls a childhood nightmare after he was wounded in World War I.
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