Theodore J. Lowi, John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell University and former president of the American Political Science Association, has long studied the presidency. One of the things he has learned in that process is that he would never want the job. “I may be the only American capable of being president of the United States because I have the wisdom to turn it down if it were offered to me,” he said….
by Li-Young Lee
While the long grain is softening
in the water, gurgling
over a low stove flame, before
the salted Winter Vegetable is sliced
for breakfast, before the birds,
my mother glides an ivory comb
through her hair, heavy
and black as calligrapher’s ink.
T.S. Eliot wrote “Ash-Wednesday” after his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism. Below, an excerpt.
Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn
Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope
I no longer strive to strive towards such things
However elusive the quality of glamour may seem — restricted to the rich and the beautiful — Stephen Gundle argues that it can’t exist without some very ordinary things: shopping malls and magazines, cars and planes and hotels, movies and photographs. For glamour to maintain its power, he argues, it must be accessible….
Pink Hands
I miss not eating fish on Friday,
The halved lemon squeezed a third time around,
And our prayers, silent mutters
To God, whom we knew, whom we trusted
To make things right. I miss the incense,
White scarf of smoke. I miss Monsignor Singleton
Saying Mass in Latin with his back to us.
When he raised the Host, I looked down,
Usually at my hands, which were pink like the underside
Of a starfish.
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