The First Inhabitants of Arcadia (p)University of Arkansas Press, 2006 - 124 страница "The titles sing their lettered songs: "An Ode to j," "M-m-m Good!" and "O in Trouble."" "Here are "reading lessons," the author's exploration of the curses and blessings of the word. It is about the fall from paradise and the gifts that fall makes possible. And over the whole book broods the great lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, that deeply troubled caretaker of the mother tongue. More than an ABC book, this collection asks questions at the very heart of how we understand the world and shows us the glory and silliness at the heart of human life"-- |
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The Pathetic Fallacy | 56 |
The Burden of Being the First Letter in the Alphabet | 63 |
Boycott Lettuce Boycott Grapes | 65 |
The Vanity of Human Wishes | 67 |
Trying to Make Sense of a Single Word | 69 |
The Importance of Punctuation | 72 |
Not for Love or Money Not on Your Life | 74 |
The Dropped Stapler Just Misses the Babys Head | 75 |
Letter l as in Reliable Indomitable Chivalrous | 20 |
Mmm Good | 22 |
Hearing the Word for the First Time | 23 |
At An Early Age a Boy Discovers the Pleasures and Perils of Double | 25 |
Why a Boy Is Drawn to Lowercase p | 27 |
Vocabulary Test | 29 |
What a Boy Knows and Doesnt Know | 32 |
Dictionary Johnson | 32 |
Working the Stacks | 35 |
O in Trouble | 37 |
Lycidas | 39 |
Scintillating? | 41 |
F this and F that | 43 |
Small r | 45 |
The CIA Tries to Dispose of Still Another Mutilated Body | 47 |
Memorize Dover Beach for Monday | 48 |
A Very Short Sonnet Cycle | 52 |
Skinny Dipping | 52 |
Biographical Fallacy | 54 |
Its Not the End of the World | 77 |
No Extenuating Circumstances | 79 |
Count to a Thousand before You Open the Door | 81 |
Maybe | 83 |
Insufficient Incompetent Incapable | 85 |
Here | 89 |
My Sons First Real Attempt to Grow a Beard | 91 |
The business of a poet | 92 |
What If You Could Be Any Letter? | 95 |
Say the Magic Word | 98 |
No Weapons of Mass Destruction Found | 100 |
A Found Poem | 104 |
Babbadino | 106 |
Walking the Beach September 10 2001 | 108 |
The Sixth Letter the One with Its Arms Outstretched | 110 |
Whats Worth Keeping | 112 |
Whats Missing in the Dictionary | 114 |
The Visitor | 116 |
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Страница 6 - Don't Move Don't even think of moving. His mother has dragged him by the ear to the chair.
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