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The Empathetic Potential of Fiction
Examining the relationship between feminist literary theory, authority by experience, and the potential of the human moral imagination.
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Playing House at 18
“I played pretend at young motherhood, not bothering to correct the well-intentioned stranger(s) who asked, ‘it goes by so fast, doesn’t it?’”
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To My Children, Dear and Loving
“If ever two were one, then I’m a tree that never gleans / ancient wisdom from fresh dirt’s acetylene.”
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Stars That Are Fish
“Starfish, whose name marry the sky and the sea – the opposite ends of the world, also have in them a bit of both: the practical will to live of fish, as well as the saintly detachment of stars.”
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Eugene
“I don’t think he would have been a loving father. He didn’t have it in him. I think he would have been too scared.”
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Dushi Kòrsou (Sweet Curaçao)
“Sand flew as troupials in the far / field / While the bells of the time had not / spoken”