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in lieu of a field guide: Monosyllabic snails

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In lieu of a field guide. May 1, 2015. In an essay in Campo Santo. 2003), a posthumous collection of prose writings, W. G. Sebald provided a critical review of From the Diary of a Snail. 1974) by Günter Grass. The critique in "Constructs of Mourning: Günter Grass and Wolfgang Hildesheimer" was consistent to Sebald's championing of factual context in fiction, instead of unsupported imagination, to deal with episodes of the war and war bombings. Grass died less than a month ago at the age of 87. One. From ...

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in lieu of a field guide: Pesoa

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In lieu of a field guide. January 30, 2015. By Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles (Balangay Books, 2014). The spelling of the title was not wrong. Pesoa. A letter subtracted was a new word gained. The poet Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles was a connoisseur of found meanings. His latest collection featured what was called " blackout poetry. Or "poetry of subtraction" or " erasures. At nakakabasa. Habang. Kaharap ko siya,. Nakakaharap ko rin ang. Aking sarili: na kung. I am not certain. If she can read. The poet's (or...

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in lieu of a field guide: Two paintings by Caravaggio in Saint John's Co-Cathedral

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In lieu of a field guide. April 30, 2015. Two paintings by Caravaggio in Saint John's Co-Cathedral. I visited the island state of Malta during the last week of March to attend a meeting on biosphere reserves organized by UNESCO and the national committees of Jeju and Menorca Biosphere Reserves. On the third day of the conference, we had a chance to cross over by ferry to Gozo Island until lunchtime, and later, to go around the capital city of Valletta. By close to 300 years. Writ from the blood that flow...

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in lieu of a field guide: October 2014

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In lieu of a field guide. October 6, 2014. By Inoue Yasushi, tr. Michael Emmerich (Pushkin Press, 2013). Prior to the bullfights that culminated this Japanese story, Mr. Tsugami, the bold editor-in-chief of the Osaka New Evening Post. Who risked to organized the event together with a gambling showman Tashiro, hosted a pre-tournament dinner for the owners of the bulls and his reporters. During the feast, he and his guests "found themselves witnessing a startling scene":. As if I'd drink from a cup you.

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in lieu of a field guide: Child of Fortune

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In lieu of a field guide. January 16, 2015. By Tsushima Yūko, tr. Geraldine Harcourt (Kodansha International, 1983). By all indications Child of Fortune. The first novel of Tsushima Yūko, was a realist novel of domestic matters. It centered on Kōko Mizuno, a divorced single mother who had had complicated relationships with two men: her former husband Hatanaka and her former lover Doi who was married to another woman. Lately Kōko had sexual relations with Hatanaka's friend Osada. The freedom that Kōko exp...

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in lieu of a field guide: The Shooting Gallery (Tsushima Yūko)

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In lieu of a field guide. November 6, 2011. By default, three things at least define the literary career of Tsushima Yūko (b. 1947). The first is that her real name is Tsushima Satoko. The second is that she is the daughter of the novelist Dazai Osamu who killed himself when she was just one year old. The third, and the most significant, is that she's an accomplished writer herself, a multi-awarded literary figure in Japan. With Kōno Taeko. 1988) and the novels Child of Fortune. There was a cat in the wo...

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in lieu of a field guide: September 2014

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In lieu of a field guide. September 27, 2014. Selected Poems of Corsino Fortes. Selected Poems of Corsino Fortes. Translated from Portuguese by Daniel Hahn and Sean O'Brien (Archipelago Books, 2014). All of parting is power in death / And all return is a child learning to spell", wrote the Cape Verdean poet Corsino Fortes. B 1933) in a selection of poems made available in English this year. These lines ended the poem " Emigrant. From his first collection of poems Pão and Fonema. In dead Amilcar's mouth.

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in lieu of a field guide: January 2015

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In lieu of a field guide. January 30, 2015. By Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles (Balangay Books, 2014). The spelling of the title was not wrong. Pesoa. A letter subtracted was a new word gained. The poet Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles was a connoisseur of found meanings. His latest collection featured what was called " blackout poetry. Or "poetry of subtraction" or " erasures. At nakakabasa. Habang. Kaharap ko siya,. Nakakaharap ko rin ang. Aking sarili: na kung. I am not certain. If she can read. The poet's (or...