Word: also
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...definitely still doing it, even though I might make my boat kind of small," said one freshman in Annenberg Hall who didn't want to be named. "I will also definitely be drinking. I don't want to be in Winthrop, and I have to please the gods somehow...
...free himself forever [from] the idiot brother and the house.” Faulkner reveals that Jason sells the Compson estate and puts his brother in an insane asylum—effectively dismantling his family’s history. Some might view this ending as tragic, but it is also triumphant. Towards the end of Jason’s entry in the appendix, Faulkner includes the exultations, “He was emancipated now. He was free.” The last remnants of high Southern white society crumble away as the individual enters modernity. Jason destroys one world...
...save us. But it can remind us / Survival is a butcher’s goal. All hands / To the pathos. Let the credits,” he writes. The poet explains that this is “a structure of feeling / Broken by hand.” Alternatively, Lerner also often leaves out punctuation, leaving sentences unfinished, imitating the rhythm of real conversations. The last sentence of the excerpt mentioned above—“Let the credits”—in fact ends there, abruptly...
...most frequent subjects of the collection is its own form. “Do not hesitate / To cut the most beautiful line in the name / Of form,” Lerner writes. Not only do these recurrent comments on the poetic form become redundant, but they also subtract attention from other sentiments expressed in the collection...
There are also instances where Lerner’s voice becomes too colloquial. Lines such as “removing the suicide / From the speed dial,” or, “There are some cool pics online,” detract from the other accomplishments of his work. These phrases solely function as a distraction from his more serious and beautiful ones such as, “we could spend our lives / Parting in stations, promising to write / War and Piece...