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Once upon a time the Chairman ordered the complete destruction of the “Four Pests” plaguing China: bedbugs, roaches, rats, and sparrows. Bourgeois birds, he called the sparrows. Sparrows stole...

Friend, in the desolate time, when your soul is enshrouded in darkness When, in a deep abyss, memory and feeling die out, Intellect timidly gropes among shadowy forms and...

Questions for Ecclesiastes by mark jarman story line press, 100 pages, $65.33 The literary climate in the twentieth century has not been notably hospitableto religious poetry. Indeed, one might...