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Though the fiction ranges from very good to arch or trivial, the level of poetry is consistently high. That is not surprising, since very few popular magazines include any poems at all. The best contemporary poets must depend largely on smaller presses, and a number of them are represented here: Derek Walcott, Joseph Brodsky, Carolyn Forché, Charles Simic, Louise Glück, Galway Kinnell and Robert Creeley...
...Madrid. "It is good," he says, "for a writer to go to a place where everything is novel, where you can't even take the butter for granted, where the mayonnaise comes in a tube instead of a jar, where you are made to notice even the trivial things-especially the trivial things...
...during the American Revolution, it is easy to suppose that this type of emotion may have been even more evident in rebellions against such historically domineering father figures--the French King, the Russian Czar, or the Iranian Shah. Shaw's concept about the patriots, then, is in no way trivial, but it may not be as illuminating as it first seems. The existence of the patriots' unresolved resentment against their natural and royal fathers cannot be seriously challenged; what still remains to be proved, however, is what converted those subconscious rumblings into a revolution...
...1960s tried to raise defense spending without increasing taxes at the same time, and the result--as Republicans have joyously pointed out for at least a decade--was a knot of inflation that paralysed the nation. The order of magnitude of the Lyndon B. Johnson precedent seems almost trivial by comparison. And Reagan might well remember the inflationary jolt of the early 1970s that came when the Arab states increased their oil prices. Under Reagan, energy has magically disappeared as a cause of inflation, but, in fact, our national reliance on a costly and uncertain flow of oil from...
Like many undergraduates, Hamlin will also remember the more trivial protests he was involved in. One morning at breakfast, he recalls, a cockroach crawled out from under his scrambled eggs. He was furious, and he asked to speak to the dining ball manager "but I never raised my voice or swore. I know how to do that sort of thing...