Noticing Sentences

Lincoln 2021 Books U.S. versus other countries South Korea- p65 It's awkwardly formal compared to back home, where we usually all eat at different times, typically while in front of the TV or a book or our phones. Loneliness and noise. The American way. p92 Marcos is widely regarded by the world as a brutal dictator, continuing to stay in power after the end of his presidential term by declaring martial law. p147 It strikes me that I cannot claim this country's serene coves and sun-soaked beaches without also claiming its poverty, its problems, its history. To say that any aspect of it is part of me is to say that all of it is part of me. p227 Discussion I met one old woman who had been doing this every week for the last forty-eight years. even if God does not exist, this woman has been doing good in His name so maybe it does not really matter. p88 She hesitates, then adds, "Maybe you haven't developed a passion yet because you've spent your entire ...

"Tablets IV" by Dunya Mikhail selected stanzas 7 The map of Iraq looks like a mitten, and so does the map of Michigan-- a match I made by chance. 8 If you can't save people, at least don't hate them. (p315) 21 Their stories didn't kill me but I would die if I didn't tell them to you.  (p318) 23 We are not upset when the grass dies. We know it will come back in a season or two. The dead don't come back but they appear every time in the greenness of the grass. (p319) "Concerning the Necropolitical Landscape" by Christopher Soto p338-339 Probably not for use with students. But I thought this poem was beautiful and heartbreaking. from "Under the Knife" by Krista Franklin "Are you...?" and to have to shatter their hopes of Dream Baby, and simultae- ously begin the Emotional Labor of soothing their embarrassment after hearing, "No." Because a woman with a swollen or distended ...