Tag Archives: Puerto Rico

Trump Reality: Puerto Rico a Success

By Robin Bates | Published: June 6, 2018

Puerto Rico hurricane disaster, like the banana plantation massacre in “100 Years of Solitude,” has all but vanished from the airways.

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Atwood’s Year of the Flood–Our Future?

By Robin Bates | Published: October 19, 2017

Atwood lays out the social devastation that can arise from extreme climate events in “Year of the Flood.” Some of her predictions are starting to come true.

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Visit Puerto Rico with Wings of Healing

By Robin Bates | Published: October 8, 2017

Read through hurricane-weary eyes, Coleridge’s “Dejection: An Ode” promises soulful hope.

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Assertive Women Drive Lear, Trump Mad

By Robin Bates | Published: October 4, 2017

Lear is driven mad by his assertive daughters. Are strong women like the San Juan mayor also sending Trump around the bend?

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While the President Golfed…

By Robin Bates | Published: October 2, 2017

Sarah Cleghorn’s famous poem “The Golf Links” captures our president, who golfs while Puerto Rico starves.

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May We Sail without Giving into Our Fears

By Robin Bates | Published: October 1, 2017

A Noah’s Ark poem by the great Syrian poet Adonis can be applied to the Puerto Rico rescue effort, especially as certain people on the right attempt to inject race into the affair.

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Will Ships Be Sent to Puerto Rico?

By Robin Bates | Published: September 26, 2017

We need to send ships to Puerto Rico as we did to Haiti following the earthquake. I imagine them showing up as the unexpected ships in the “Lord of the Rings” siege of Gondor.

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