Tag: color photos
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Almost Home
“…My grandfather crossed this sea in ’04 and never returned, so I’ve come alone to thank creation as he would never for carrying him home to work, age, defeat, those blood brothers faithful to the end…” —Philip Levine, from “My Fathers, the Baltic,” News of the World (Knopf, 2009) (University Bridge, Seattle, 2014)
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Veiled
“The fact that human beings have created, and daily create, this self-directed system through which they divest themselves of their innermost identity, is not therefore the result of some incomprehensible misunderstanding of history, nor is it history somehow gone off the rails. Neither is it the product of some diabolical higher will which has decided,…
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To a Clearing
MORNING OCCURRENCE AT XANADU by Charles Wright Swallows are flying grief-circles over their featherless young,Night-dropped and dead on the wooden step.The aspen leaves have turned grey, slapped by the hard, west wind. Someone who knows how little he knowsIs like the man who comes to a clearing in the forest, and sees the light spikesAnd…
Chris Bronsk: Photographs 