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Deconstruction as a political strategy
Deconstruction relies on the flipping of binaries. “Losing is winning. Crime is justice. Rape is love. Death is life.” No wonder the new Jacobins hate Orwell. from Lee Smith, “The Global Empire of Palestine,” in Tablet, December 19, 2023 The salient fact is that the crushing military defeat suffered by the Palestinians will hardly matter,…
Salute to Time | Susan N. Aassahde
a motorbike zips through traffic with my passing years The post Salute to Time | Susan N. Aassahde appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online
“In 1976, When She Was Born” [by Molly Arden]
In 1976, When She Was Born Life was dull in 1976. Dad had to read “Ivanhoe” and write a report. Sex was not yet Mom’s favorite sport. The only rhyme that came to mind was “dicks.” Mom was somewhere north of the Mass / NH border. She was just following an order, not calculating its…
Lionel Shriver’s “J’Accuse”: “PEN America Rewards Cowardice”
from THE FREE PRESS, May 1, 2024 https://www.thefp.com/p/lionel-shriver-pen-america-rewards ‘Real freedom of expression is too scary; we’d rather hide in a crowd whose keffiyeh-masked members all shout the same thing.’ (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Lionel Shriver: PEN America Rewards Cowardice We live in a world where an organization established for the defense of free speech…
His Critical Condition: On F. R. Leavis [by David Lehman]
In literary criticism, we remember the great practitioners by their errors and blind spots. Samuel Johnson dismissed Milton’s “Lycidas” — perhaps the greatest elegy in English literature — as artificial and insincere. T. S. Eliot introduced the term “objective correlative” in order to judge Hamlet a failure. Yvor Winters thought the world of Elizabeth Daryush,…
Researched Poem | J.K. Durick
I began by brainstorming a bit came up with a keyword and a few modifiers, Googled them even Yahooed ’em, before trying them on more serious databases Academic Search Searcher and SelexisNexis, no end of sources from too little to too much, so I began interviewing the folks I could con or corner long enough…