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Elemental Joy in California’s Wildfires?

By Robin Bates | Published: August 3, 2018

Friday Just as warming waters are causing bigger and more frequent hurricanes, so climate change is contributing to the intensity of California’s wildfires. The fires this year so far have burned 98,000 acres and killed six people, who can be added to the 44 who died last year.  An essay I wrote last October remains […]

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Brother Fire Ravages California

By Robin Bates | Published: October 11, 2017

Louis MacNeice captures what northern California is experiencing in “Brother Fire.” The poem also reveals a disturbing dark side in how we respond to catastrophe.

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Brother Fire Unleashed in Libya

By Robin Bates | Published: March 10, 2011

As I watch Muammar Qaddafi turn his air force against his own people, I am trying to imagine conditions on the ground. I asked my father for literature describing the experience, he having once undergone a bombing himself. It occurred in 1944, a couple of weeks after the D Day invasion of Normandy, when the […]

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