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Divination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Elaine Freedgood
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      What if in the final minutes of your heavying
      descending

      the landing strip kept lying
      changing you back
      into the air the way a white

      backs away in anger when you approach with the directions you've been asked?
      —Ed Roberson, “The Aerialist Narratives”

The fate of the nation is foretold in the arcs of birds, in the flight patterns of the ruling class, in the strip of runway hard to see in the fog. Only through the scrutiny of all such lines will our fates grow clear.

—Joseph Donahue, “Metaphysical Shivers: Reading Ed Roberson”

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The Changing Profession
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PMLA , Volume 128 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 221 - 225
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Copyright © 2013 by The Modern Language Association of America

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