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American Indian Trickster Tales

Thursday, March 5, 2009

This book is mostly about sex and farts. In all their austere nobility, Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz have plumbed the depths of American Indian fart jokes and bawdy fireside tales and have compiled them into an easily accessible form, so all the world’s people who can read English good can partake of true American […]

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The Song of Wandering Aengus

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Keats knows his business. If the primary goal of poetry is to strike to the heart of things succinctly, Keats nails it. This poem, for instance, tells a complete story in three stanzas of eight lines each. He wastes nothing, but doesn’t sound sparse. He maintains a sumptuous, bittersweet atmosphere without bloating, and without sounding […]

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