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Michael Casey's first book, Obscenities, was in the Yale Younger Poet Series in 1972. It was recently reprinted by the Carnegie Mellon University Press. His later books are Millrat, The Million Dollar Hole, Raiding a Whorehouse, and Permanent Party. |
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Published Spring 2006
 
Bagley's Sign
Bagley's sign
on the road
near the monkey house
the POW cage people
put up a traffic sign
prisoner crossing
good ideas go wrong though
started off comical
first just a stylized stick figure
a nicely done symbolic
line drawing of gook generic
with conical hat
but then people added stuff
the slant eyes
the buck teeth
the hat strap
the thorn crown and cross
I can picture it now
it ended up
not very subtle at all
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MR BOOKS
Critics at Work
ed. Jeffrey J. Williams.
Critics at Work offers a guided tour through the central, sometimes confusing and frequently controversial developments in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. The tour guides, however, are not distant observers but have been primary participants in those developments, and they report on theory, cultural studies, the literary canon, the recent focus on race, sexuality, and other identities, the state of the univerisity, and the role of the intellectual. Throughout, they consider the not always easy negotiation of politics and culture.
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