It was a trick of perception. An estimated people live in the town of Cave-in-Rock, according to the U. Census , less than half the number of residents in The population that remains is aging and poor: more than 40 percent are older than 45, and nearly 30 percent live in poverty.
A report from the Social Impact Research Center lists 42 Illinois counties on its poverty watch list. Cave-in-Rock and Hardin County, home of Elizabethtown, are at the top of the list—meaning that people here face declining income, employment, and high school graduation rates.
Life expectancy is The state has lost approximately , factory workers since , which disproportionately affects downstate workers. Racism would seem to have played a significant role—I saw as many Confederate flags flying as Trump flags while there.
But in Hardin County, 40 percent of the white, rural, largely working-class constituents voted for Barack Obama in A cabin near Herod, Illinois Credit: Ryan Smith I half expected to hear the groans of one of the anguished apparitions rumored to haunt Cave-in-Rock while spelunking the southern-Illinois landmark recently. Birds of prey circle above Cave-in-Rock. Some of that tendency in him pre-dated his teaching, and came from culture he grew up in.
At a certain point, though, when I began to focus seriously on my poetry, it clicked for me that this playfulness I enjoyed, but took for granted, could be harnessed to ideas in a way that could pack a lot into a line. Sound can make language easier to swallow—or it can be what makes you choke on an expression. In poetry, we talk about juxtaposition a lot, in terms of diction, references, image, etc. Can you talk about you approach weighting a line?
Another way of putting this would be to say that language—or English, specifically, in my case—carries around a lot of freight beyond simple denotation, and in the context of the kinds of subject matter that I gravitate towards, that freight is fraught. We feel the operation of language, in these situations, as we might not feel it when the words are spooling out in ways that we can see coming, so to speak.
Enjambment, assonance, consonance, and other tools for mixing syntactic play with sonic association are go-tos for me. One of the challenges then becomes not allowing those strategies to become overly familiar to myself—I have to leave room for my own discovery and surprise. So striking. And then there was another, and another, later in the book! Perhaps they were born out of a desire I have to write for theater, as a warm-up for that work. I remember hearing or reading?
Suzan-Lori Parks one of my favorite playwrights say once that writing a play was fundamentally a matter of getting people on the stage. The first of these poems might be thought of as a response to her conceptualization of the process. Why do some things indeed seem to happen both arbitrarily and yet also like they have been predetermined?
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After three times of this, she runs upstairs to her phone. Here the creature reveals itself, and Alexis screams as she realizes the truth: the monster has been mimicking the bell sound the whole time. Late in the night, a sleeping woman is awoken by the appearance of a box at her doorstep. Inside the box is a seemingly innocuous voodoo doll, but this doll might have plans of its own. Maya is a 7-year-old Mexican girl who receives a series of cuentos folktales from her great aunt.
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The man begins experiencing what he can only think of as horrifying hallucinations. He frantically hurries home from work, getting lost down a dark alley. Unsure of what is real and what is not, he stumbles down the alley, terrified.
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