Monthly Archives: October 2010

Select one figure of speech eh? Well at first reading of these poems I was sucked in to After Arthur Rimbaud. After reading Corbett’s Rhetoric guide, well it’s actually kind of amazing how many examples of figures of speech I can … Continue reading →

Philadelphia Fire is a trying book, and nothing quite like I had expected. I was imagining a story about a fire, how it happened, why it happened, and maybe what happened after. This book instead is a puzzle. It seems … Continue reading →

“ The play’s really about Prospero’s guts. Everyman. The inner drama. The war of light and darkness within our souls.” (P145) Philadelphia Fire was nothing like I expected.  The story itself deals with battles. There is a battle of voices, … Continue reading →