Brad Leithauser has been publishing poems and novels, much of it brilliant work, for forty years. When he was a young man he imagined writing a book about the structure of poetry. It has recently appeared—has been haunting his imagination for decades, and now at last is available between two covers. Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry is a lifetime’s worth of education on the craft, a handbook, a book of essays, yes, but each one geared—in the manner, say, of John Hollander—to particular elements. There are chapters on “Stanzas,” “Enjambment,” “Rhyme and Rhyme Decay,” “Iambic Tetrameter,” even a chapter on the boon afforded English-language poets by English’s odd spellings, and another on “Rim Rhyme” (“where consonants are held steady while internal vowels are shifted around,” like “light” and “late”). Though the title phrase means “rhyme” as a kind of synonym for poetry in general, this poet does argue for the power of rhyming—the relationship between two words—as being, still, central and generative to the art form’s vitality.
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Khader Adnan represents a political culture that has come to permeate Palestine for years, a mode of collective resistance that cannot be easily crushed, silenced or killed. Even in death.
The post How Khader Adnan Unified the Palestinian People from an Israeli Prison Cell appeared first on MintPress News.
The Government claims there is 'no requirement' to record the minutes of informal meetings between ministers and the media, reports Sam Bright
“The idea behind [Swedish Death Cleaning] is simple: At a certain point in your life, you should stop accumulating more stuff and start dealing with the stuff you’ve already accumulated so your loved ones won’t have to do it after you’re gone.” – Lifehacker
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Life is temporary, but Swedish Death Metal is forever. We, the members of the band Bloodstained Odin, will help you destroy all the shit in your house so you can die on a pile of broken litter. You will be remembered not as a part-time math teacher at Nieblas Middle School, but as a demigod who stayed true to their mission of destroying shit instead of subscribing to society’s fucked-up rules about getting organized.
B J Sadiq reports from Islamabad as the former cricketer and Prime Minister is apprehended during a court case
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Media reports created a false impression of a major breakthrough linking animals to Covid’s origins.
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This newspaper has spoken to people who fell foul of the new mandatory voter ID requirements in May's local elections
Jeremy Scahill speaks to James Risen and Thomas Risen about their new book, “The Last Honest Man.”
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Anyone following the news cycle in the lead-up to the federal budget will have heard the figure of ‘400,000 people from overseas coming to Australia this year’. That level of migration has created headlines...
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Simon Speakman Cordall explains how China's unparalleled access to African markets is also causing the kind of political turmoil that undermines its interests
While covering the arrest of Republican demonstrators last weekend, Mic Wright also discovered Westminster volunteers the Night Stars had been caught up in the Met dragnet
2 pounds ground veal2 cups fresh cranberries1 cup waterArtificial sweetener to equal ¼ cup sugar2 cups tomato purée1 cup canned, French-style green beans, mashed3 tablespoons, dehydrated onion flakes2 tablespoons diced celery1 teaspoon chili powder, or to taste1 teaspoon prepared horseradish1 teaspoon lemon juice½ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce½ teaspoon salt ADVANCED PREPARATION: Shape veal into 16 uniform […]
Last night (May 9, 2023), the Australian government delivered the latest fiscal statement (aka ‘The Budget’), and, in doing so guaranteed that unemployment would rise. A deliberate act of sabotage of living standards for disadvantaged Australians. All the hype was about the miniscule fiscal surplus that was announced as if it is some sort of…
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With the recent release of 2021 SEIFA data, local governments in Australia now have a complete range of powerful demographic and socioeconomic information from the 2021 Census to use when assessing the socio-economic wellbeing...Labor’s budget fails workers and the poor so it can keep big companies, the military and the rich all on side.
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Has there ever been a bigger baby? Ever??? Update: Still ranting at 1 am: He also put out two more of those whiny videos. If I didn’t know better, I’d think he was on drugs. Too many diet cokes?