The Vassar Girl
In a video produced for CBC, Mary McCarthy (Class of ’33) describes the college as it was when she was a student in contrast to Vassar in 1974.
In a video produced for CBC, Mary McCarthy (Class of ’33) describes the college as it was when she was a student in contrast to Vassar in 1974.
A taste for rural scenes, in the present state of society, appears to be very often an artificial sentiment, rather inspired by poetry and romances, than a real perception of the beauties of nature. But, as it is reckoned a proof of refined taste to praise the calm pleasures which the country affords, the theme is never exhausted.
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Even people with no interest in field guides know about them...
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When my first book of poems came out in 1992, I learned what it could mean to be seen as a political poet for no other reason than because of who or what one is...
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Gridlocked traffic, summer solstice, 9.15am. Upper deck 243, Dalston Junction to Goswell Road, who wouldn’t look down on this sort of commute?
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The other day a card arrived: a picture of mother, father, and child, teeth bared, cheeks pulsing with fresh blood. The baby looks more like him, with that nearly translucent-white skin.
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If, in the midst of this elated day, / someone took him aside with the stern warning, / Most of your life will not be like this morning...
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