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This edited volume offers new insights into the populist wave that
is affecting democratic politics in a large number of countries.
The authoritarian populist turn that has developed in the US and
various European countries in recent years both reflects and
exacerbates the polarization of public opinion that increasingly
characterizes democratic politics. The book seeks to explain how
and why authoritarian populist opinion has developed and been
mobilised in democratic countries. It also explores the
implications of this growth in authoritarian, anti-immigrant
sentiment for the operation of democratic politics in the future.
It concludes that liberals may need to abandon their big-hearted
internationalist instinct for open and unmanaged national borders
and tacit indifference to illegal immigration. They should instead
fashion a distinctively liberal position on immigration based on
the socially progressive traditions of planning, public services,
community cohesion and worker protection against exploitation. To
do otherwise would be to provide the forces of illiberal
authoritarianism with an opportunity to advance unparalleled since
the 1930s and to destroy the extraordinary post-war achievements of
the liberal democratic order.
This edited volume offers new insights into the populist wave that
is affecting democratic politics in a large number of countries.
The authoritarian populist turn that has developed in the US and
various European countries in recent years both reflects and
exacerbates the polarization of public opinion that increasingly
characterizes democratic politics. The book seeks to explain how
and why authoritarian populist opinion has developed and been
mobilised in democratic countries. It also explores the
implications of this growth in authoritarian, anti-immigrant
sentiment for the operation of democratic politics in the future.
It concludes that liberals may need to abandon their big-hearted
internationalist instinct for open and unmanaged national borders
and tacit indifference to illegal immigration. They should instead
fashion a distinctively liberal position on immigration based on
the socially progressive traditions of planning, public services,
community cohesion and worker protection against exploitation. To
do otherwise would be to provide the forces of illiberal
authoritarianism with an opportunity to advance unparalleled since
the 1930s and to destroy the extraordinary post-war achievements of
the liberal democratic order.
Frost's breakthrough book of poetry seen anew as an artistic whole
and in the context of the poet's career and development. North of
Boston, Robert Frost's second book of verse and arguably his
greatest, brought him suddenly into national prominence in 1915.
Though completed and first published in England in 1914, the book
was rooted in the decade, 1900-1910, that Frost spent in Derry, New
Hampshire, where he witnessed the decline of its traditional
farming culture. In presenting this "drama of disappearance,"
twelve of the book's fifteen principal poems are literally
dramatic, composed mainly of direct dialogue. Among them are three
of Frost's most famous lyrics, each featuring a signature task of
New England life and underlining the book's tribute to a fading
culture. Collectively, the poems bring the diction and tones of a
New England vernacular within a traditional metric frame, making
"music," as Frost boasted, "from the sound of sense" and poetry of
"a language absolutely unliterary." Such adaptations of ordinary
language and experience to blank verse drama made Frost a founder
of American modernism and North of Boston one of its monuments.
Exploring Frost's complex connection to his poetic characters, this
study provides new readingsof the individual poems and a new look
at North of Boston's development. To a degree no other study has
done, it addresses the book's design as an artistic whole while
placing it in the context of Frost's unfolding career. David
Sanders is Professor Emeritus of English at St. John Fisher
College, Rochester, New York.
The poems of Compass and Clock take their inspiration from the
intersection of the natural world and the human, exploring the
landscapes in which those intersections occur. Those landscapes
range from David Sanders's native midwestern countryside to the
caves of Lascaux and an enchanted lake where relics of lost lives
are washed ashore. Yet, the true source of the poems' vitality is
Sanders's attention to the missed or misread moments, those times
when the act fails, and the perceived clashes with the actual.Here,
the satisfying pairing of elegance and vulnerability invites the
reader to tour those uncanny landscapes from which one returns
irrevocably changed?-?refreshed, but wistful. In a review of his
earlier limited-edition work, Time in Transit, the Hudson Review
called David Sanders "a poet to watch." With the Swallow Press
publication of Compass and Clock, we have the realization of that
promise.
A collection of poems about time, solitude, and wisdom that leads
readers to hover between acceptance of and alienation from our
fragility. Bread of the Moment, the follow-up to David Sanders'
Compass and Clock (Swallow Press, 2016), devotes keen attention to
the porous nature of the past and how the unbidden evidence of
ordinary life pervades the world, provoking a spectrum of moments
from which to draw meaning and find solace. These poems,
characterized by a mix of free and formal verse, depict quiet days
at home or in nature, as well as close calls and brushes with
death: chronic illness, a house fire, a car crushed by a boulder.
In this way, these poems amplify the fragility of the commonplace,
a mystery from which we are, amid the noise of our everyday lives,
sometimes estranged. Through this exploration, Sanders constructs a
precarious balance between alienation and acceptance, striking a
note at once recognizable and new.
In 1913, at 71 years of age, acclaimed American journalist and
author of popular "horror" fiction Ambrose Bierce set out on his
final journey. It is a journey that has been shrouded in mystery
ever since. What is known to history and biography is that Bierce
visited the Civil War battlefields where he had fought in the Union
Army. His destination was Mexico. His motivation for the Mexico
journey remains unclear. Some say he was going to fight alongside
Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution. Others say he wanted merely
to report the war firsthand as he had done with his Civil War
experiences. He is believed to have reached Chihuahua, Mexico, by
late November or Early December of 1913, whereafter he disappeared
from the face of the earth. Nusquam Res, Nusquam Esse is a
fictional account of that journey as seen though the eyes of a
young valet who accompanies Mr. Bierce on the journey into
oblivion. It is rich in historical details regarding the various
places the two men visit and biographically correct - to the extent
of what is known of Ambrose Bierce's life.
During the summer of 1995, rural Henderson County, Texas and the
area surrounding the county seat of Athens is burning as the result
of pasture and forest fires during a severe drought. In the midst
of those blazes, the body of a man is found bound, gagged and
burned in the bed of his pickup truck in a field near a 500-gallon
gasoline storage tank. The discovery leads to a murder
investigation by authorities and a reporter for the local newspaper
into the convoluted events surrounding a murder-for-money scheme
gone badly awry. Based on actual events, A Death in Texas is a
fictionalized account of the murder case. It is rich in detail
about the small town and surrounding county and the sometimes
quirky inhabitants thereof.
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