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“Alfred Corn’s second book of poems goes well beyond fulfilling the authentic promise of his first. The title poem is an extraordinary and quite inevitable extension of the New York tradition of major visionary poems, which goes from Poe’s ‘City in the Sea’ and Whitman's ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’ to Hart Crane's The Bridge and ...
The term "a-loffeing", they believe, was Shakespearean, suggesting that the rhyme is considerably older than the first printed versions. They then speculated that if this were true, it might have a folklore meaning and pointed to the connection between shoes and fertility, perhaps exemplified by casting a shoe after a bride as she leaves for her honeymoon, [3] or tying shoes to the departing ...
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn." is a six-word story, and one of the most famous examples of flash fiction . Versions of the story date back to the early 1900s, and it was being reproduced and expanded upon within a few years of its initial publication.
Typhoid Sufferers (Serbo-Croatian: Tifusari) is a poem by Croatian writer Jure Kaštelan. The poem depicts hallucinations of typhoid-affected Yugoslav partisans marching through snow-covered wastelands during World War II. [1] It was first published in Kaštelan's 1950 book of poems The Cock on the Roof (Pijetao na krovu). [2]
Boots" is a poem by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in 1903, in his collection The Five Nations. [1] "Boots" imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman marching in South Africa during the Second Boer War. It has been suggested for the first four words of each line to be read ...
In the ensuing chapters, Hiawatha has childhood adventures, falls in love with Minnehaha, slays the evil magician Pearl-Feather, invents written language, discovers corn and other episodes. Minnehaha dies in a severe winter. The poem closes with the approach of a birch canoe to Hiawatha's village, containing "the Priest of Prayer, the Pale-face."
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, published in 1986, is the fifth book in African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou's seven-volume autobiography series. Set between 1962 and 1965, the book begins when Angelou is 33 years old, and recounts the years she lived in Accra , Ghana .
"It's Corn" is a song by The Gregory Brothers that remixes portions of an August 2022 interview of Tariq Tull on Recess Therapy. [1] [2] [3] The song was released in August 28, 2022 on YouTube and went viral on social media platforms. [4] [5] [6] After the interview, seven-year-old Tariq was dubbed the CEO of Corn, and nicknamed the "Corn Kid". [7]