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American Gold is a book full of poetry, a book of history, the story of a place as it changes through fifty-eight years, the history of the shaping of a sensibility. It is not quite a novel. But it is a book worth having.
August 1978Winning In America
A JAKE scream is the best. It can probably out/decibel a primal scream any day of the week, and has the added advantage of surprise attack, giving it increased sincerity. You don’t know you’re going somewhere special to scream. It is convenient, occurring in the ordinary workings of daily life.
August 1978A Romance
Cartoon By James Thornton
With regards to changing the title from “That Very Special Romance” to “A Romance” I must raise the following objections and make the following suggestions. 1. My title has a certain acerbic irony not present in the truncated (emasculated?) form. The fact is there was nothing particularly romantic about my relationship with the little trollop.
August 1978Five Poems
I want to love loneliness / the way I love you. I want / to enter it and twist up its / hair in my fist.
August 1978What Is Marriage?
An acceptance, a sacred and beautiful covenant, a vehicle for going to God
August 1978
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