Nature writing is historically a place for poets and thinkers to come to terms with what nature asks of them and society demands of them. Wendell Berry is among many writers who wrote from this fraught place, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and others. Wendell Berry used poetryContinue reading “The Queer Nature of Wendell Berry’s“The Peace of Wild Things””
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An Exploration of Fools, Gender, and Madness in Twelfth Night
In this essay I am going to show how the character of Feste in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (Or What You Will) performs the fool neurotype, and how this neurotype gives him the social position and power to bring audience attention to the gap between gender identity and gender performativity that many the characters in Feste’sContinue reading “An Exploration of Fools, Gender, and Madness in Twelfth Night”
Someone Wrote a Poem About Me Once
A Short Story. The Jamaica Wine House was a grim little corner pub, in the depths of Cornhill, London. The yellow air in there reeked of warm cigars. The evening crowd was just filling out, and the grubby brick walls began to pulse with hungry shadows. Men with their hats off mingled, pints sloshed betweenContinue reading “Someone Wrote a Poem About Me Once”
The Haunt of the Marianne
Was a story most could recite in Darborough town, off Cornwall’s coast— a ghost tale told, every Halo’Eve. It went like this, by most: T’was a perilous, storm wrecked night. The black wind howled like a strangled cat; wave crests reared in violent armies; the deviled rain ran grim and fat. The men knew ofContinue reading “The Haunt of the Marianne”
Sprockets and Springes 