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Ezra Pound’s Poem, “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”

Ezra Pound wrote this poem in 1915 (which he described as “after Rihaku”): While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played about the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You … Continue reading

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Nobody Around Him Objects: A Man Holds a Racist Obama Monkey at a McCain-Palin Rally—but When a Camera Focuses on Him He Slips It to a Kid in the Crowd

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