From a spectacular essay in Poetry by Mary Ruefle: I remember John Moore, another teacher, who did the damnedest thing. We were studying Yeats, and at the beginning of one class Mr. Moore asked us if we would like to see a picture of Yeats. We nodded, and he held up a photograph of YeatsContinue reading “The great and the small: Mary Ruefle”
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I Only Wish There Was Some Way to Avoid This Terrible Tragedy…
In which the Onion proves as adept as imitating CNN as it already is at imitating the New York Times. http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/videoplayer/flvplayer.swf Preemptive Memorial Honors Future Victims Of Imminent Dam Disaster