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Richard Wright’s Haiku
November 16, 2011 I never thought his career would end in this way: thousands of these 17-syllable poems, with no narrative, nothing that adds up, just a passing thought, the briefest of observations, seemingly going nowhere: Meticulously The cat licks … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Boy, generic conventions, Ghana, haiku, Native Son, photography, Richard Wright
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Question of scale
November 9, 2011 A great conference at the University of Maryland. “Rethinking World Literature/ Other World Literatures” — this is what a lot of us claim to be doing, but probably not with the same panache, conviction, and embarrassment about … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Japanese poetry, Paris, scale, world literature
Tagged cemetery, fiction/poetry, France, Gertrude Stein, haiku, Japanese poetry, Julia Wright, Paris, Richard Wright, scale, world literature
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