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...impetus, the impulse that prompts the question: we hold our breath as if for an expected blow. Barthes' voice moves ahead, seeks us out, and it is this trajectory that abort, itself, fails when the other voice, harse, discordant, "somewhat sadistic," breaks in. If there is place for the reader, the privileged spectator in this staging without a stage, it lies in the crying of the question, "how do you know when he has finished...
Cambridge librarian Kevin J. Donnelly said that the library's new collection of books about peace is "geared not just toward students and children, but toward the general reader who wants to be an informed citizen." The collection is funded by the Cambridge Commission on Nuclear Issues and Peace Education and by donations from bookstores...
Alice Walker's fourth book of poetry may surprise readers of The Color Purple, but it is hardly an anticlimactic follow-up to the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel. The collection of poem's begins with an almost apologetic quote from Lame Deer, a Sioux medicine man: "For bringing us the horse we could almost forgive you for bringing us whiskey. Horses make a landscape look more beautiful." The reader who expects poems about horses and flowers, however, will be disappointed. Walker's poems are sharp, often political criticisms aimed at contemporary society...
Walker not only attacks the United States' ties to South Africa but also criticizes the attitudes that have made "people of color" doubt their own value. "Without Commericals" is a taut poem that appeals directly to the reader. Like a revolutionary manifesto, it repeats its message, both exhorting and assuring in one phrase. But for Walker, the enemy is not The White Man: She is perceptive enough to identify cosmetic beauty as oppressive because of the impossible ideals we are told to reach for and admire. Physical beauty has become a commodity we can acquire but at the cost...
...Walker's poems attempt to embrace an audience of women and men of all backgrounds. For Walker, being a Black woman writer is not an exclusionary title. She sees her position as broadened by each of the labels that identifies her; thus, every reader can find her poetry in mate...