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...works from her most recent publication, Midnight Salvage, and concluded with the poet sharing two new poems with the audience. Empathy for the troubles of the persecuted shone through the readings from Dark Fields of the Republic, as Rich's intimate voice, laden with strong pauses, directly addressed "the reader who still listens" to the politics of poetry. Shifting to works from Midnight Salvage, Rich read to rows of eyelids; listeners absorbed her words with eyes closed as she shared some of the underlying meanings of her new text...
...once again in the realm of the supernatural here. Price knows a lot more about it than he lets on. More about it, indeed, than the responsible reviewer, protecting the reader from foreknowledge of Unbreakable's well-disguised surprise ending, dares to tell. Suffice it to say that Price's belief in the power of "comix" to symbolize the endless battle between good and evil betokens a more intimate understanding of that topic than he cares to admit...
...that's for another book. Lewis has no photos of afternoon gridlock on the 405. She's here to sing the body automotive: mile-long Caddies outside a drive-in; the family car at Roy's Cafe, Motel & Gas. These elegant images of classic cars magically transport the reader to the intersection of Nostalgia Road and Dream Drive...
...last edition in this series, where the priority is to "make things happen." Now with music in hand, ready to be mastered and sent off to the duplicators, we enter the final stage in the rock album saga, and, indeed, our final weekly acquaintance as writer and reader...
...Herbert Donald, the highly esteemed historian and author of 1995's Pulitzer Prize winning Lincoln, has fallen victim to that grim disorder that so often strikes Harvard's demigod professors. It's a disorder that most recently befell Fletcher University Professor Cornell R. West '74, with his Cornell West Reader. The disorder: over-inflated ego combined with tremendously juicy publishing deal...