The Key Bridge disaster–and doubts about America’s response–brings to mind Hart Crane’s bridge poem, a hymn to America aspiring to greatness.
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Bridges and the American Dream
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The Erotic Call of the Pear Tree
Zora Neale Hurston has one of the most erotic descriptions of a blossoming tree that you will find anywhere.
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America Encourages the Vagabond Self
Looking at the United States from the vantage point of Iran, Nafisi writes that it was America’s vagrant nature that she connected to. She writes that America “somehow encourages this vagabond self.”
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