Written by john on February 2nd, 2010
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A friend sends out a poetry email every Monday, and here’s what he sent this week.
Pablo Neruda, toward the end of his life, was invited to read in Caracas, Venezuela, in the great national theater there.
The theater was filled with people celebrating him as the icon and the [...]
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Written by john on March 16th, 2008
In January 1841, Abraham Lincoln, then a state legislator in Illinois, wrote to his law partner about securing a post for a physician who was then treating him for a nervous disorder called hypochondriasis, or hypo for short, a condition we would call major depression. “I have, within the last few days, been making a [...]
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