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Danticat on Haitian Occupation
In the newyorker.
On July 28, 1915, United States Marines landed in Haiti on the orders of President Woodrow Wilson, who feared that …
The Public Archive holds the discursive line on the occupation.
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Hardee and Lejeune.
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Values from Ancient Greece to Contemporary Harlem
BBC4 Start the Week – Mariella Frostrup talks to Hamid Dabashi, Edith Hall, Douglas Murray and Glenn Ligon.
43 mins from May 2015.
call forth its riches
…write about what your everyday life offers you; describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty. Describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble sincerity and, when you express yourself, use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember. If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no poor, indifferent place. And even if you found yourself in some prison… Rilke
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