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The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Ident**y |
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Sentimental Education (3) |
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Madam Bovary |
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Bovary, |
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The Color of Water |
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Educated, Hillbilly Elegy). |
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Photographs |
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The Nickel Boys |
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The Intuitionist |
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The Nickel Boys. |
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The Color of Water. |
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In the Presence of Absence |
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Life Studies |
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For the Union Dead |
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Often she saw you came home from a ride |
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or a walk, your coat dotted with thoughts |
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on slips of paper. |
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On State Street |
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a steeple with a glowing dial-clock |
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measures the weary hours, |
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the merciless march of professional feet. |
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The cheese wilts in the rat trap, |
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the milk turns to junket in the cornflakes bowl, |
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car keys and razor blades |
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s***ne in an ashtray |
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Poetry) |
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Writing the Australian Crawl |
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Premeditations |
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A landmark, registered, and us inside it, |
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folded up in folding chairs, with |
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everything outside moving |
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fast in another direction. |
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Looking around from |
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sign to handmade |
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sign, I dreamt |
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the lot of us |
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had heard |
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an SOS |
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and |
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answered, |
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gathering |
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against |
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an evil hour, |
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keeping faith |
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to make our stand, |
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in the last bookstore in town. |
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Ironwood, |
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Complete Poems |
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Aye, tether me among the maniacs, |
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it’s nicer to rave than reason. |
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To cross a river |
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boats and rudders |
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to keep the empire in order |
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poets and sages |
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I saddened my self with idealistic philosophies |
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Whose steps wake your delight? |
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New York Times |
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the Was***ngton Post |
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Frankenstein |
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Lolita |
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Desert Solitaire) |
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The Monkey Wrench Gang |
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Edward Abbey: A Life |
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Hillbilly Elegy |
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real |
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Howl |
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Another Bulls**** Night in Suck City |
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The Ticking is the Bomb. |
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I Will Destroy You |
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a sunset,/a puppy, a tree in/ a field– |
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If only they could/bottle this feeling, |
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Mr. Salary |
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here, but no need to bother. |
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Normal People |
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Conversations with Friends |
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I’d been wanting to write this essay for many years, so was thrilled when |
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answered my query. By journalistic standards, it’s a lengthy piece, with the introduction excerpted here and a link to the full article appearing at the end. |
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A Confederacy of Dunces (4) |
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J’accuse |