Archive for May, 2009

Suicide in Howl

Examples: who ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine in Paradise Alley, death, or purgatoried their torsos night after night lost battalion of platonic conversationalists jumping down the stoops off fire escapes off windowsills off Empire State out of the moon, who disappeared into the volcanoes of Mexico leaving behind nothing but the shadow [...]

Blood is Thicker Than Water

Arthur Miller’s “A View From The Bridge”  loyalty is a multiple layered theme that Miller works into the Red Hook community. Miller focuses on the loyalty of a ethnic group that has been forced out of their homeland due to crippling economic troubles. In the face of poverty, the ties between a group of people [...]