– Their Eyes Were Watching God – – A Study in Humanity – Zora Neale Hurston, an excellent playwright, anthropologist, novelist, and filmmaker went undiscovered for years. Why was this? How could this novel which[…]
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Personal Response to Ginsberg’s ‘Kaddish’
It Leaps About Me An Emulation It leaps about me, as my feet travel across the pavement of the street, turning back to peer over my shoulder, Oude Vest, the water of the canals brushing[…]
When Fame Falters
The following text is Ísland, an 1835 poem written by the Icelandic poet Jónas Hallgrímsson in an effort to rouse the hearts of his compatriots in the centuries-long struggle preceding Icelandic independence. Just beneath the[…]