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Book Review: Getting Closer To Walt Whitman

May 26, 2010
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Walt Whitman is an exuberant poet, and fellow versifier C. K. Williams is exuberant about Whitman in this wonderfully perceptive introduction to his poetry. On Whitman (Writers on Writers) by C. K. Williams. Princeton University Press, 208 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by Anthony Wallace On Whitman is a meditation on the life and work of the…

Short Fuse: The Revelatory Carnival of Andrei Codrescu

November 24, 2009
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The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess by Andrei Codrescu, Princeton University Press, 248 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Harvey Blume In 1916, as Europe waged an horrific war that, nearly a century later, makes even less sense, if possible, than it did at the time, refugees, renegades, draft dodgers, opportunists, revolutionaries and artists…

Book Review: The Art of B.S.

April 13, 2005
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A new book gives a philosophical analysis of American culture’s obsession with nonsense.

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