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...bailout. ("Senator, if we don't get money and job security right now, it could have a disastrous impact on American blurb-writing. Adjectives like riveting, blistering and unforgettable, not to mention all our cherished W's - warm, winsome, winning, wonderful - could simply disappear. And all that prose is produced right here...
...read Gibbs' wonderful prose on this historic election, I felt the same surge of emotion, now bittersweet, that I experienced at age 10 on hearing Martin Luther King's thrilling "I Have a Dream" speech or Robert F. Kennedy's powerful utopian oratory. It dawned on me that Americans in our hearts are idealists who truly believe that we are all equal. We have waited decades for a leader to touch our hearts the way that King and Kennedy did. Obama has galvanized the American electorate by reminding us who we really are as a people, by touching our hearts...
...will be celebrating with you the 50 years of the arrival of African Literature. I will do that celebration through poetry, not prose,” he said...
...almost impossible to answer the question of what’s going on in the hundred poems offered in this collection, translated into English by National Book Award-winning poet Marilyn Hacker. Themes and characters exit as quickly as they’re introduced, poetry transforms into prose, and reality becomes theater. But once Étienne’s words are untangled, a thoughtful attempt to embrace all of human experience is revealed.Despite the deliberate structure of 10 groups of 10 14-line sonnets, the collection’s overarching narrative remains confusing. Each of the 10 sections...
...itinerant laborer, living the life of a poète maudit and striking up an acquaintance with heroin. But in 1990, finding himself a husband and father, Bolaño decided to kick the smack and take up writing fiction in the hope of supporting his family. His prose turned out to be better than his poetry. In 1998 the publication of The Savage Detectives vaulted him into the first rank of Spanish-language literature, right up there with all those writers he had mocked as an infrarealista. But by then he was already suffering from the liver disease that...