Anna B
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Anna B
For people on the right, it’s sparked by horror at changing demographics and gender roles
Michelle Goldberg • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
The sentence has allured us a long way, but I’m not certain I follow, not even sure what “this” consists of, never mind the “infinitely more.”
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
It is a story difficult to put into words, this. I never tell it, in fact, or never have before. I told no one at the time, not my friends, not my family: there seemed no way to translate what had happened into grammar and syntax.
Maggie O'Farrell • I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!
Langston Hughes • Let America Be America Again
https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again
This poem kept me going during the insanity of the Trump years.
Seven times—four hows and three whats —the sentence invites us to anticipate a logically and artistically satisfying terminus
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
Identifying as someone who categorically rejects books suggests a much larger deficiency of character.
