"What Would You Do for Money? Dorothy Parker Wrote Bad Poetry"
"Flappers were the libertines of the Roaring Twenties, with their daringly short hair cuts and hemlines. They are sometimes cast as warriors for equality and sometimes as 'the ones who were biting their lips and batting their eyelashes,' said Gina Barreca, an English professor at the University of Connecticut. They were 'co-opting femininity, using it in their own ways to get what they want,' she said."
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What Sparks Poetry: Ranjit Hoskote on Translation
"Mir’s voice speaks with clarity and urgency, with anguish and a timely critical resonance to our historical moment. His themes are our themes, his loss is our loss, his bewilderment is our bewilderment—the destroyed city, the devastated countryside, the scattering of friends, the exactions of exile. All these are features of our lives today, in a world marred by genocidal wars and forced migrations, invasions and insurrections, tanks and bulldozers, bombed cities and slaughtered populations." |
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