Kid Kirby
October 24, 2018[…] had a mild temperament, blond hair, bland blue eyes, and a downy upper lip—truly an unlikely candidate for the fast-draw artist the public later made him out to be. He came up to the […]
[…] had a mild temperament, blond hair, bland blue eyes, and a downy upper lip—truly an unlikely candidate for the fast-draw artist the public later made him out to be. He came up to the […]
[…] come home; she didn’t even have her jacket off. “I can’t claim the kids you keep begging for,” my father barked to everyone and no one in particular. “I can’t claim the ones we’ve […]
[…] just below the embankment of an antediluvian oxbow. She had been lying there a long time, be fore the Cayuse and Lewis and Clark and the Grand Coulee Dam and long before that fifties […]
[…] something about Brother B’s personality that repelled him. He wasn’t fake, but he also wasn’t ever com fortable to be around. It’s as if he were a magnet that needed to pull people to […]
[…] immediately what his friend meant. The body can only take a certain amount of pain—physical, emotional, spiritual—be fore it gives up the ghost. Death is the spirit’s rejection of suffering, and no physical body, […]
[…] times and put all our odds and ends on the table where we could pick them over for our mutual amusement, down to the last snarl of twine and thought. Somewhere in the rich […]
[…] yet appeared; even today it is a work which no serious student of the subject can af ford to ignore. Nevertheless, the work did have some flaws, and Roberts had his limitations as an […]
[…] political and economic barometers continue to plunge, the inescapable by-product of a people aware of its trans formation from meaningful, active citizenship during the “Prague Spring” into renewed subject-status under a harried regime increasingly […]
[…] standards. A party of trappers who passed through in 1830 described it as “the most desolate and forlorn dell in the world” and preferred to “forego the acquisition of any benefit in the world” […]
[…] are western, are they also Mormon? That is, do they possess distinctive qualities of subject matter or form which set them apart from the work of other mid-twentieth century poets of western America and […]