Imaging Figures #7: Actionable Bodies
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The wolf is entitled to the lamb. The Mountain Wreath (1847) You would not believe how many words there are for home and what savage music there can be wrung from it. Edna O’Brien (2015) For months now, I’ve seemed to live in a crowd of stories. The second epigraph to Edna O’Brien’s recent novel,… More
Imaging Presences
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In honor of the ringing among these epigraphs, I lead up to an imaging presence: it is early 1996. After coming to NYU from Columbia University, I am in my last semester of being a doctoral student who does not teach… More
Truth in Poetry
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Poet Michael T. Young explores concepts of truth and imagination in this thought-provoking essay. More
Book 4 of 100—Alexandra Fuller, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
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Book 4 of 100 Alexandra Fuller, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight It’s taken me awhile to write this review. I wanted some time to reflect on this memoir before commenting on it. In this book, Alexandra Fuller (“Bobo,” as she’s called throughout her childhood), recounts her experiences of growing up in South Africa… More