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A taciturn candidate for Mt. Rushmore – Part II of III

April 10, 2014 by William Eaton

(This is the second of three reviews of John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley: In Search of America. In Part I (April 03, 2014) – Steinbeck writes about travel and nature. Part III (April 17), “The Hunger to be Somewhere Else,” is about Steinbeck’s observations on the restlessness of the American character.) Steinbeck’s use of hyperbole, self-deprecation, ridicule and satire makes us laugh. His humor yields understanding of our national character. About the Yankee preference for getting to the point, no more and no less, he writes of […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: literature, travel

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Girls Gone Wild: Reversing the Roles of Street Harassment

April 5, 2014 by William Eaton

It is difficult to pinpoint the origins of my interest in gender relations, but one of the most prominent memories that launched my self-awareness of being a woman in this world was when I was cat-called on a street corner when I was in 9th grade. The incident was so specifically unique to my identity as a female and to my physical body that it forced me to begin considering the differences that I was bound to face simply because of my […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR

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John Steinbeck's poodle, Charley

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found” – Part I of III

April 3, 2014 by William Eaton

This is the first of three reviews of John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley: In Search of America. In Part II  (April 10) Steinbeck uses humor to look into the American character. Part III (April 17), “The Hunger to be Somewhere Else,” is about Steinbeck’s observations on the restlessness of the American character. So said John Steinbeck of himself. He was also talking about a defiant, independent streak in the American character. The Nobel Laureate (1962) was writing about the nature of travel in his […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: travel

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Divorce Wislawa Szymborska

The First Ending of the World

April 1, 2014 by William Eaton

This week I have another photo to share from the off-road rally that my husband and I did in the Colombian plains a few weeks ago. It shows a poem by Polish Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska and a desolate windmill in the background. The first line of the poem has stayed with me ever since I read it. I have a fourteen-month-old son, and it’s hard to think of when he will experience his “first ending of the world.” It’s […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR

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Biphobia: The downside of going both ways

March 29, 2014 by William Eaton

I’m on the road this week, so I am indulging in magazine reading as my travel smut. This New York Time’s Magazine article (because no, I don’t read Playboy for the articles) The Scientific Quest to Prove Bisexuality Exists, by Benoit Denizet-Lewis, proved to be a lengthy and interesting read regarding the enduring phenomenon of “biphobia.” The author, a self-identified gay man, spends some time with John Sylla, the president of the American Institute of Bisexuality (A.I.B.), a well-endowed group […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR

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Masterpiece of a Misfit III – Peace of Mind and Getting There

March 27, 2014 by William Eaton

This is the third of three reviews of Sir Richard Francis Burton’s masterful travelogue of his journey in 1853 to Mecca and Medina, disguised as a faithful pilgrim. Discover why Burton is an iconoclast in Misfit I. Read one of Burton’s masterful sentences in Misfit II In a A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, Sir Richard Francis Burton says the pilgrimage is a personal journey. A pilgrimage brings the traveler peace of mind, in the acts of getting there, and of worshiping. […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: travel

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here wyslawa

Poetry on the Go

March 25, 2014 by William Eaton

I owe a new-found obsession with off-road rallies to my husband’s passion for cars. Once our baby was born he exchanged the race track for the dirt track and brought me along. Last weekend we traversed more than 600 kilometers of Colombian wilderness on a dirt buggy. Because road trips are better taken in good company, I took Polish poet Wisława Szymborska-Włodek along for the ride.  Of course, since the former Nobel Laureate is sadly no longer with us, I had […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR

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Masterpiece of a Misfit–II Burton’s Word Paintings

March 20, 2014 by William Eaton

This is the second of three reviews of Sir Richard Francis Burton’s masterful travelogue of his journey in 1853 to Mecca and Medina, disguised as a faithful pilgrim. Discover why Burton is an iconoclast in Misfit I Burton brings the pilgrimage to life in Misfit III Sir Richard Francis Burton’s A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina was published in 1856. Photography had yet to begin its rife presence in travel literature. In its stead, authors “word – painted.” Burton’s brush strokes […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: travel

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Trilobite

The Right Word

March 18, 2014 by William Eaton

Sometimes a word is all it takes to build a poem. Such is the case in Tomas Tranströmer’s “To Friends behind a Border,” translated from the Swedish by Robert Bly. For me, the poem is constructed around the uncommon word “trilobite,” which refers to a fossil group of extinct marine animals possessing an exoskeleton. An example is shown in the attached picture. Here is the text of the poem, as published in the Spring 2013 issue of The Kenyon Review: […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR

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