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 alan marshall World Wars. But the wars about which he writes date back a millennium or more, andthere is not a passage of re ...

quiet americans  truculent ego, in all its embattled pompous authority, now brittle, now resilient. Heavyis the head that wea ...

 alan marshall counting—the scanning of the dead. ‘[N]ipped’ suggests quick movement (nipping along),which in turn suggests l ...

quiet americans  Lycopolis’ and ‘The Spoils’ come to rest on images of young girls (not women) ‘debauched’or ‘hawked’. The ma ...

 alan marshall thrives—and at the same time he can ironize, and even humanize, that discourse; hecan cut it down to size. Ult ...

quiet americans  Empire, which was itself but a prelude to the Holy Roman Empire, which was itselfbut a shadow of the Platoni ...

 alan marshall Here imperialism has, as it were, lost its idea—has lost touch with its roots, and itsroots, in a sense, were ...

quiet americans  pains are too earnest’^69 )is patience, discretion, hesitation, slowness. This is figured in ‘The Numbers’ a ...

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pointing to east and west  interventions as old imperial or neo-colonial acts of retrenchment. The principal observerbeing co ...

 adam piette foolish decisions being made to our detriment on the other side of the Atlantic’.^1 Forthat, the logic told the ...

pointing to east and west  located as mirage on a horizon offshore. The real political spaces of England are colonized,defeat ...

 adam piette Dressed up as a quest for the old British energies in the ex-colony, Davie’s envy is intruth an attraction to th ...

pointing to east and west  For an Orwellian cold warrior, the ‘vicious winter’ of the Cold War ‘grips its prey lesstightly’ i ...

 adam piette versions of Marina Tsetayeva, Edwin Morgan’s translations of Voznesensky and Yevtushenko(notably ‘Stalin’s Heirs ...

pointing to east and west  of the Cold War, specifically a form of core solidarity with East European suffering undercensorsh ...

 adam piette than living’^32 ).If the male poet harbours such beasts within his psychosomatic system, as well as outside in t ...

pointing to east and west  1972;^36 JohnAsh relocating to New York in the early 1980s, an Ashbery disciple gnomically trashin ...

 adam piette Ginsberg in the June 1965 Albert Hall Poetry Incarnation partly inspired by the anti-Vietnamprotest meetings occ ...

pointing to east and west  and all citizens, psychically and politically, are co-opted into the waiting game of deterrence,re ...