Complex currents of history and geology run through this warm tribute to Sierra Leone The Colour of Stones I When you arrive in this misnamed country, come to the crooked hills; the fierce, verdant ...

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A sharply observed nature poem that is also a hellish pastoral towards the end of time Leaf Color A steely torn silver, rusted along the edges; the faint acidic yellow, like the backwash of a polluted ...

I decide that I’ll knit the birds and the magnolia into a poem, Make their bond eternal. Simrita Dhir lectures at the University of California, San Diego, and is the author of acclaimed novels The ...

Alexine collected the perspectives of 20 new voices, each explaining the power of a single poem. "The responses reflect a spectrum of experience among the writers," she explained. "But I did notice ...

Wartime is not war, though it could include actual conflicts. It is simply a tract of time, a signpost “wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known; and therefore the notion of time is ...