Questions tagged [lawrence-joseph]
Questions about the works of the American poet, writer, essayist, critic and professor of law Lawrence Joseph (born 1948).
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As the former name for Baghdad, does "Sutis" contain any special or symbolic meaning?
Lawrence Joseph has mentioned the poem "In This Language, In War's Revolutions" that:
in the city Baghdad, named Sutis by its founder,
Nebuchadnezzar, here where the prophet Daniel
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What does "Pulled-up" mean in the Lawrence Joseph poem Rubaiyat?
Here part of the poem "Rubaiyat" by Lawrence Joseph:
The holes burned in the night.
Holes you can look through and see
the stump of a leg, a bloody
bandage, flies on the gauze; a pulled-up
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