Epigraphs All the Way Down (2022)
The study of texts should provoke thinking and conversation; resist censorship.
For a while I could not remember some word I was in need of,
and I was bereaved and said: where are you, beloved friend?
—Mary Oliver1, “After I Fall Down the Stairs at the Golden Temple
As an English teacher, I believe that we read and write to make meaning, not merely to receive it. The quotes below, which headed variou…
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