A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed.

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To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope,...

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope,...

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an...

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an...

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential...

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential...

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own...

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own...

With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from...

With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from...

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.

In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans...

In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans...

Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.

Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it,...

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it,...

Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as...

Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as...

In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on...

In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on...

Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect...

Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect...