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A Confederacy of Dunces is most triumphantly a symphony of voices, a wonderfully wide range of authentic-sounding voices which would be distinctive even if they were never named.
By David GuyNovember 1980Poetry effects change by fiddling with the archetypes and getting at people’s dreams about a century before it actually effects historical change. A poet would be, in terms of the ecology of symbols, noting the main structural connections and seeing which parts of the symbol are no longer useful or applicable, though everyone is giving them credence.
By Gary SnyderOctober 1980Muckraking, infamous mergers, the Jeffersonian ideal
By Our ReadersSeptember 1980August 1980Task: to be where I am. / Even when I’m in this solemn and absurd / role: I am still the place / where creation does some work on itself.
Tomas Tranströmer
Dr. Fischer is a dark God who grants us favors only at the cost of our humiliation, who eggs us on with snatches of happiness only in order to degrade us. He is a greedy God, as greedy as his creatures: he is greedy for our humiliation.
By David GuyJuly 1980From the minute you’re born you somehow know. But the blinders that are put up by society, and by legislated rules, are what people think of as truths. They’re not truths at all. They’re lies. They are confinements compared to the cosmic knowledge that exists.
By David BelskyJuly 1980We forget, until a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude reminds us, that a metaphor can be a glimpse into the interconnectedness of things, and as such, a large new breath of possibility to our pallid imaginings of self.
By John RosenthalMay 1980May 1980The satiated man and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.
Jalaluddin Rumi
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