Ala Faco

Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats Ah poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats, Ah you foes that in conflict have overcome me, ...

Allegiances It is time for all the heroes to go home if they have any, time for all of us common ones to locate ourselves by the real...

READY TO KILL TEN minutes now I have been looking at this. I have gone by here before and wondered about it. This is a bronze memorial of a...

Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois (1920). When he was 12 years old, a traveling carnival came to town...

Course Description: This course covers a wide range of American prose and poetry including a study of major themes such as transcenden...

Your World Your world is as big as you make it I know, for I used to abide In the narrowest nest in a corner My wings pressing close to...

Naoshi Koriyama is a Japanese poet and translator, born in 1926, who works in both Japanese and English. UNFOLDING BUD One is amazed By a w...

The poet and short-story writer Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston (1809). He was the son of two actors, but both his parents died ...

I am a man of constant sorrow I've seen trouble all my days I'll say goodbye to Colorado Where I was born and p...

“What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself—life hurrying past us and running aw...

The novelist Vladimir Nabokov, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia (1899). He described himself as "a perfectly normal trilingu...

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On Easter morning all over America the peasants are frying potatoes in bacon grease. We're not supposed to have "peasants" b...

The trouble with pleasure is the timing it can overtake me without warning and be gone before I know it is here it can stand facing me unre...

from Song of Myself 46 I know I have the best of time and space, and was never measured and never  will be measured. I tram...

*The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. *Ultimately a hero is ...

Novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts (1941). After college he decided to join the Peace Corps i...

Norman Mailer was born in Long Branch, New Jersey (1923). Mailer wrote The Naked and the Dead (1948), considered one of the best novel...

Touched by an Angel We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its h...

Gore Vidal said that the Puritans went to America not because they were persecuted but because they had lost the right to persecute others....