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...support groups: if one doesn't exist, start one. Her advice is practical: "If it is more than you can bear to think about right now, that's O.K. Read a book. Take a walk. Surf the Internet. Play basketball. Go to the movies. Paint a picture. Write a poem." Or spend a few hours with Fitzgerald's fine book...
...wife recites Emma Lazarus' poem in its entirety, an unexpected feat that is rather moving. The hostess conducts an intense internal seance, diving deep, canvassing her unconscious. With a blink of triumph, she fetches up the sculptor's name: "Bartholdi...
Bruce Bennett, who published Haviaras's prose poem collection for the Wells College Press, said that though he is a diligent curator, Haviaras is primarily an outstanding writer...
...course in Whitman's 1850s the United States was a ship on the rocks, breaking apart. The Civil War, the first modern war, with its industrial carnage, was imminent. Whitman cherished a magnificent illusion that he could save the union with a poem - an act of imaginative cohesion that would resolve the great American paradox of individual dignity in democratic mass. His "I" was an immense ego joined to an even larger "we," so that he wrote in Leaves of Grass, "[I am] one of the great nation, the nation of many nations," and in the embrace of his rhetoric...
...been a brilliant controversialist, speaking from the left and, for the last 30-odd years, from the right. He has defended America against attacks from both left and right. He has always sought, by means of his writing and editing, to do what Whitman dreamed of doing with his poem - sort out the mess, make it coherent, whole...