Author: Richard J Tilley
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Vyry’s Song: Remembering as an Uncontested Place
Memory, like imagination, is a place of elucidative trepidations, symmetry compressed to myrrh from bifocal consciousness, sediment and stoicism forgetting all but grace through the rushing richness of the flooding...
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Langston Hughes’ Bebop and Postwar Harlem
Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely: You’ll hear their feet Beating out and beat out a – You think It’s a...
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‘A cat at pranks’: Christopher Smart’s Protectorate
‘A cat at pranks’: Christopher Smart’s Protectorate1 Let Shephatiah rejoice with the little Owl, which is the winged Cat. For I am possessed of a cat, surpassing in beauty, from...