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70Three Decent Poems by Sylvia Plath
After reading a piece about Sylvia Plath written by A. Alvarez in his book The Savage God: A Study of Suicide, I was slightly hooked on this fascinating woman and therefore needed to learn more about her as a poet. It is entirely true that Sylvia Plath was writing her very best poems in the last year of her life and in this piece I want to look at three of them in total.
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71The Best Electric Guitarists Ever
So much goes into being the best electric guitar player that most of us are not equipped artistically or even musically to decide in the most objective terms who may or not be the greatest. I am listing here my favorite electric guitarists of all-time and there can be no disputing my list as it is purely subjective, as are most things if admitted to honestly.
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71Frank Lentricchia's Pretty Italian Actress
It's a pretty book, and only one hundred and seven pages.
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70Who Of Us Also Stumbled Past The Work Of Jonathan Lethem Until David Foster Wallace Up And Bid Us Adieu
Notes somewhat on Jonathan Lethem, Gordon Lish, Don DeLillo, Raymond Carver, John Wayne, Philip K. Dick, John Cassavetes, Bob Dylan, and David Foster Wallace
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68Flannery O'Connor Deserves a Better Man
It is not hard to imagine there being countless more people than I who are complete opposites of Mary Flannery O'Connor. Flannery O'Connor was character enough to overwhelm anyone who got to know her. Fact is, I want more.
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67The Masterpiece of Robert Walser with Christopher Middleton Meddling
The publisher proclaims this German work as Robert Walser's finest. I hold court with the verdict resting with both the translator's ability to sustain the work for how remarkable it already is or to make it that way with a brilliantly creative translation. Hard to say what happened here.
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70L'occitane, Simply The Most Amazing Hand Cream
Truth is, my hands were getting pretty dried out and I was starting to think it was time again for some of my wife's hand lotion. Problem was, every time I use the damn stuff I...
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74Why I Hate Poetry
The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. These two old guys drove twelve miles into town to attend a special poetry reading, hoping to eventually read publicly a few of their own poems in the...
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71The Poet Barton Allen And His Fall From Literary Grace
BARTON ALLEN, the anointed and now almost forgotten poet, could still be resurrected. Well, I want to believe it is so. It is a possibility that if he fails to produce any more work of note he...
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77HORRORS of BLACK RAIN, NUCLEAR BOMBS, SMOKING, and STUPID WARS
A critical review of the novel Black Rain by Japanese author Ibuse Masuji. The review rambles on over other philosophical questions and offers a personal view about stupid wars and smoking.
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