Many of Trump’s primary opponents have behaved like Toad after a motor car runs over his gypsy caravan.
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Toad and Trumpian Politics
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Quiet Hopes for the New Year
Merwin’s New Year poems ushers in the new year very quietly.
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Dreaming of Travel during Covid
A very smart Covid poem circulating on social media at the moment references 11 poems, all about longing to travel.
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Music Only Poets Can Hear
Thursday As I’m currently traveling, I’m reposting an essay I wrote seven years ago about a poem by Xavier University’s Norman Finkelstein, whom we dined with last night. Norman was my best friend in graduate school and this may be my favorite of his poems, perhaps because I too am in love with Kenneth Graham’s […]
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British and American Fantasy Contrasted
An “Atlantic” article argues that British fantasy is richer than American fantasy. I agree that they are different and that there are interesting reasons for those differences–but that American fantasy is vibrant as well.
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Joy Shall Be Yours in the Morning
Kenneth Grahame has a particularly beautiful Christmas story in “Wind in the Willows.”
