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    Month: January 2018

    The sky was red and all my life was in it.

    Dear Jean, In your novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), you seem to be holding up a distorting mirror to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847): if we look…… Read more “The sky was red and all my life was in it.”

    19 de January de 201820 de March de 2018 by juliana

    Jean Rhys

    Jean Rhys (born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams, 24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was a British-Dominican writer. She was born and grew up in Dominica, and moved…… Read more “Jean Rhys”

    19 de January de 201819 de January de 2018 by juliana

    I keep dreaming I’m a creature pulling out my claws one by one

    Three poems by Iranian-American poet Kaveh Akbar, from the book Calling a Wolf a Wolf (2017): * Soot Sometimes God comes to earth disguised as rust, chewing…… Read more “I keep dreaming I’m a creature pulling out my claws one by one”

    10 de January de 201822 de November de 2018 by juliana

    Kaveh Akbar

    Kaveh Akbar (Iran, 1989) is an Iranian-American poet. He earned his MFA from Butler University, and his PhD in Creative Writing and Philosophy from Florida State University. In 2014, he founded…… Read more “Kaveh Akbar”

    10 de January de 201822 de November de 2018 by juliana

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