Carol Muske Dukes

Memorable Books Of 2011

Regina Weinreich | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: 2011 Books, Best Books 2011, Bob Holman, Carol Muske-Dukes, Jack Kerouac, New-Years-2012, Thelma Adams, Denis Johnson, Phoebe Hoban, Jeffrey Eugenides, Anne Waldman, Walter Isaacson, Gail Levin, Books News

Languishing on a beach chair in my winter outpost by a turquoise sea, I have only books on my mind. Here are a few that have pleased and provoked.

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Don't Bank on Banks -- Except for One!

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: North Dakota, Carol Muske-Dukes, Bank of North Dakota, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News

I would encourage the Occupy movement to adopt a new plank in the platform -- a new bank. De-bank and re-bank! Let's find the "radical" economists and entrepreneurs who can help make the success story of the state bank available to us all.

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Scattershot Poetry Reviews -- Three Books

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 10.21.2011

Read More: Deborah Landau, Syd Lea, Carol Muske-Dukes, Poetry, The Last Usable Hour, Young of the Year, Hoodwinked, David Hernandez, Books News

I wish I had time to review the list of new books before me -- here are just three.

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More Response to Westen's "Story" Theory for Obama

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 10.14.2011

Read More: Drew Westen, Obama, Carol Muske-Dukes, Nytimes, Politics News

What is the best and most enlightening and engendering Story that Americans should be listening to right now? Who gets to tell the Story -- and who listens and thus makes it Real, the Real Story?

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Thomas Jefferson Hated Dogs and Clergymen

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, Carol Muske-Dukes, Politics News

What Thomas Jefferson's severe lapses in what we might call (as a generic) "Christian" behavior meant was that he was merely human.

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Reading, Writing and Random Violence

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carol Muske-Dukes, Jared Loughner, Jared Loughner College, Jared Lee Loughner College, College Shootings, College Shooters, College Violence, College News

It's not difficult to pinpoint students who represent danger -- nearly every professor I know has had an "incident" with a potentially violent student. Here's one war story of my own.

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Thanksgiving Book Reviews

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poetry, Carol Muske-Dukes, Timothy Donnelly, Far District, The Cloud Corporation, Deborah Allbery, Ishion Hutchinson, Terrance Hayes, Fimbul-Winter, Lighthead, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving 2010, Books News

Here is a Thanksgiving cornucopia of significant new books of poetry -- each one worthy of our attention as it spins out a new and challenging perspective.

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"To a Soldier" Poem

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lisa Russ Spaar, Poetry, Carol Muske-Dukes, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Books News

"To a Soldier" and text as posted on The Chronicle of Higher Education Arts & Academe page. To view this article on that site, click here. To a Soldi...

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An Apology for Women's Literature

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cate Marvin, Jodi Picoult, Flannery O'Connor, Carol Muske-Dukes, Jennifer Weiner, Women's Literature, Women Authors, New York Times Book Review, Books News

Sisters, let's be honest. We write books. But if you look at the fact that so many more works by men are reviewed in major journals, our "books" are not what the establishment deems noteworthy.

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A Necessary Poet

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been, Chase Twichell, W.H. Auden, Carol Muske-Dukes, Healthy Living News

W.H. Auden, in his wonderful book of essays, The Dyer's Hand, imagined a "College for Bards", a cheerfully eccentric institution offering a refreshi...

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A Sea of Deceit and Capitulation

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Edward Dorson, Whaling, Carol Muske-Dukes, Japan, Shark Research Institute, W.S. Merwin, Healthy Living News

I'm taking a moment to bring you a statement of urgent import from an environmental activist, protector of international ocean wildlife - who is maki...

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Soldier to Poet: Naming of Parts (Part III)

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Reed, Carol Muske-Dukes, Naming of Parts, Ed Ledford, Poetry, Healthy Living News

Let's not fool ourselves: troops firing at the range is a cold rehearsal of killing, firing at paper silhouettes -- flat, faceless representations of unnameable casualties, very many of whom will suffer agonizing deaths or agonizing lives.

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OTHER AS ANIMAL: a meditation

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 11.17.2011

The catalogue for the haunting "Other as Animal" show at Danese Gallery in New York City (which runs from June 4 through August 6th ) -- offers a quot...

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The Accidental Adult and Other Poetry Book Reviews

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amy Newlove Schroeder, In This House, Howard Altmann, L.A. Liminal, Poetry, Carol Muske-Dukes, Let Me Open You a Swan, Colin Sokolowski, Becca Klaver, The God of Loneliness, The Sleep Hotel, The Accidental Adult, Deborah Bogen, Philip Schultz, Books News

These poetry books are all provocative and beautifully crafted and, in my opinion, worth reading again and again. The themes of loneliness and memory are paramount in all

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SOLDIER TO POET: An Exchange

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exchange, Conversation, Soldier, Carol Muske-Dukes, Poet, Lt. Colonel Edward Ledford, West Point, Literature, Marines, Afghanistan, War, Hamlet, Aeneid, Poetry, Politics News

We cannot get away from the romanticism of war -- indeed, we romanticize it every day, even as we curse the notion. And this war is epic, to be sure. Think back to the first act in this play.

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Soldier to Poet (Part II)

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Wilfred Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est, Poetry, Edward Ledford, Carol Muske-Dukes, Healthy Living News

One generally expects those in position to wage war to avoid it, to make damn sure that outcomes are worth more than the inordinate destruction we have got to expect.

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Confronting Words: Poetry Reviews

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yusef Komunyakaa, Poetry, Carol Muske-Dukes, Reetika Vazirani, Molly Bendall, UNDER the QUICK, Carpathia, Book Reviews, Poetry Reviews, Ecilia Woloch, Books, Chinder, Poems, Books News

The three books reviewed here are by women writers who confront the world in uncompromised fashion.

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Two Books

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poem, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Apocalytic Swing, Carol Muske-Dukes, Poetry, Writing, Never-Ending Birds, David Baker, Poetry Books, Poet, Books News

Two poets -- singing the same song in different keys -- create new maps of poetic consciousness.

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Two Interviews

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Carol Muske-Dukes, Joe Jackson, Healthy Living News

I didn't know Farrah Fawcett or Joe Jackson, but there is still this insistent sense, as they each described their lives to me, of a wish to be recognized as talented and good, a wish to be taken seriously.

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Over Your Dead Body (Last Rights)

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: David Dukes, Carol Muske-Dukes, Death Rites, Dealing With Death, David Dukes Heart Attack, Coroners, Heart Attacks, Death, Healthy Living News

These mini-DMV's of death are independent of any oversight or quality-of-care boards. Many "local" or county coroners are not even physicians; they are "political" appointments.

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HAIR, The Rock Musical: A French Twist

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Muscials, Hair the Musicial, Paris France, Paris, Hair, Carol Muske-Dukes, Healthy Living News

Sometime in the summer of 1970, I wandered into the theater district of Paris and managed, by chance, to join a queue of auditioners for a part in the Paris production of HAIR.

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