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While the cultural and aesthetic standards behind these selections are historic, not transcendental, ABR's list of 100 best last lines provides an index to our culture's current taste and values.
Dangerous books force us to periodically reassess the scope and quality of our thoughts.
The problem of perpetual war is a problem of representation. Representations of governance have become disassociated from public agency.
Romanians excused their absence from the Cold War literature of protest by pointing to the greatness of their poetry.
The New Lyric is the Old Lyric refashioned, reconstructed, revitalized, rehabilitated, reimagined, reaffirmed, reincarnated, redeployed, renewed.
The cosmopolitan both presupposes and displaces its supranational framework in order to reframe it.
Anthologies provide a momentary vision of a continuously changing literary landscape.
Cultural isolationism is an untenable position in a world of ever-growing cultural homogenization and assimilation.
Wit has just as much to do with the "serious sublime" as it does with perfect punch lines—those language acts that fit their set-ups even while leaping beyond them.
Our abstractions are only as good as we are--as we can make ourselves, as we aspire to make ourselves.
While a claim of "best" is objectively indefensible and absurd, the editors of "best of" series have attempted impossible tasks, and have done a pretty fair job.
Poetry contests have come under flack in literary circles for their reliance on connections and affiliations; this issue focuses on the prizewinning books themselves.
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