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Gringo with a Baedeker, Cortez in Kevlar
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Francisco X. Alarcon. From the Other Side of Night I Del otro lado de la noche: New and Selected Poems. University of Arizona Press 2002. 220 pp. $18.95 (paper).
Francisco Aragon. Puerta delSoL Bilingual Press / Editorial Bilingue 2005. 109pp. $12.00 (paper).
Francisco Aragón, ed. The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. University of Arizona Press 2007. 266 pp. $17.95 (paper).
Julia de Burgos. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos. Translated by Jac...
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The plural and the nuclear in "A Julia de Burgos." (poem)(Latin American Women's Voices: 500 Years After)
Symposium
; In the following analysis of Julia de Burgos's poem, A Julia de Burgos, (1) I will be exploring one instance of the semiotic and multiple nature of the I found in nearly all of the poems of this contemporary Puerto Rican poet, using some of the psycholinguistic concepts developed primarily by Julia
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What is a Poem? Closing out National Poetry Month with a poetic delineation
Coast Weekly
; Much of what's written and published today by America's poets is written in free (non-rhyming) verse. If a poem doesn't rhyme, you may ask, what makes it a poem? A poem is concentrated language that adds up to more than the sum of its parts. It's writing that gets alchemical and enters the realm of
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Coming the Jakarta: poetry, information, and disaster.(Peter Dale Scott's epic poem)
Chicago Review
; ... interest before. Now that we have fully developed prose genres for news, history, and science, critics have by and large been embarrassed ... drawn to this appalling story ... because of the near blackout of news about the massacre in the U.S. press, and obvious distortions ...
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The Power and the Puzzle of the Poem; Reading Between Maya Angelou's Inaugural Lines
The Washington Post
; The poem Maya Angelou read to the nation yesterday stressed the huge variety of voices in this country and the world, all of them worthy, all of them equal. So perhaps it's appropriate that her fellow poets had a huge range of responses to "On the Pulse of Morning," the first poem read at a
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Julia de Burgos Elementary is '125,000 square feet of pure splendor!'
Philadelphia Tribune, The
; McCoy, Lezlie B. Philadelphia Tribune, The 06-01-2004 Julia de Burgos Elementary School cut the ribbon on their beautiful new building in October 2003. The de Burgos building, located at 401 W. Lehigh Avenue is the newest school built in the School District of Philadelphia. Any student would be
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The Constant Rediscovery of a Poem
Generations
; "Kate." "Crabbit Old Woman." "Open Your Eyes." This poem, which has several different titles, has become iconic within care delivery settings and training programs-and throughout the United Kingdom. From humble vernacular origins, "Kate" has come to be included in the curricula for national exams
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On Remembering Poetry.(poetry)(Poem)
World Literature Today
; On Remembering Poetry No matter what I do you won't remember this poem. No matter how witty or well crafted it is, no matter how sublime the poem may rhyme, the lines will inevitably go in one ear and out the other without finding a lasting home. Don't worry or despair. This isn't your fault. We've
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Understanding "The Waste Land"; Why Eliot's famous poem resists easy interpretation.(BOOKS)
The Washington Times
; Byline: William H. Pritchard, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES What more, at this late date, is there to be said about T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, the mostfamous poem of the last century and only 17 years short of celebrating its 100th birthday? An English scholar of modernism, Lawrence Rainey, has
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THE LEGEND OF 'HOWL' IN WHICH ONE ECSTATIC, IDOL-SHATTERING POEM HERALDED THE '60S COUNTERCULTURE-AND SPAWNED THE MYTH OF ITS OWN RADICAL BREAK WITH THE PAST
The Boston Globe
; POETRY MAKES NOTHING happen, Auden duly informs us, but when mythology takes over, anything goes. Or so it would seem, to judge by a new collection of essays, "The Poem That Changed America: 'Howl' Fifty Years Later" (FSG), commissioned by Beat hagiographer Jason Shinder to mark the golden
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A FROST POEM FOR TODAY
The Boston Globe
; ... gaze out their own windows having heard the nighttime television news clashes of war in Iraq. Frost's newly found poem is a dispiriting ... should be said? What silences maintained or broken? And while the news collects the grief of soldiers' parents, spouses, and children ...
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