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Body Shadows
Once upon a time the Chairman ordered the complete destruction of the “Four Pests” plaguing China: bedbugs, roaches, rats, and sparrows. Bourgeois birds, he called the sparrows. Sparrows stole...
Friend, in the Desolate Time
Friend, in the desolate time, when your soul is enshrouded in darkness When, in a deep abyss, memory and feeling die out, Intellect timidly gropes among shadowy forms and...
Conversing with an Absent God
Questions for Ecclesiastes By Mark Jarman Story Line Press 100 pp. $10 paper The literary climate in the twentieth century has not been notably hospitableto religious poetry. Indeed, one...
