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Parini, Jay
Jay Parini 1948-
(Full name Jay Lee Parini) American novelist, poet, critic, essayist, biographer, and editor.
The following entry presents an overview of Parini's career through 1999. For further information on his life and works, see CLC, Volume 54.
Though Jay Parini first came to the attention of critics through his poetry, he also garners praise for his novels, biographies, and several works of criticism. Within each of these genres Parini works with a diverse array of subject matter—from the Pennsylvania coal mines of his youth to classical mythology to prominent historical and literary figures. While his poetry reflects an affinity for both nature and mining, his novels—particularly his biographical fiction—incorporate his interest in literary history, as evident in The Last Station (1990) and Benjamin's Crossing (1996). Parini provided significant contributions to contemporary literary scholarship with his nonfiction biographies of John Steinbeck and Robert Frost, and as the co-editor of The Columbia History of American Poetry (1993).
Biographical Information
The son of a minister, Parini was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania, and his childhood was spent among the coal mines of nearby Scranton. He attended Lafayette College and later earned his Ph.D. at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. While at St. Andrews, Parini published his first collection of poetry, Singing in Time (1972). Following his graduation in 1975, he began working as an assistant professor of English and the director of the creative writing program at Dartmouth College. During his time there, he founded and served as co-editor of the New England Review and released his first book of criticism, Theodore Roethke: An American Romantic (1979), as well as his first novel, The Love Run (1980). In 1981, Parini married Devon Stacey Jersild, with whom he shares three children. Upon leaving Dartmouth, Parini published his most critically acclaimed book of poetry, Anthracite County (1982), and joined the English faculty at Middlebury College in Vermont, where he remains still.
Major Works
A versatile author and scholar, Parini initially attracted critical recognition for his second book of poetry, Anthracite County. Several of the poems in this volume deal with his childhood amid the Scranton coal mines, while others consider themes of nature, love, and death. Both nostalgic and serious in tone, these poems present sincere emotion through a field of experience. This nostalgic quality also permeates his next poetry collection, Town Life (1988), an autobiographic, cyclical work in which the middle-aged poet reflects upon his life and future. These highly personal poems employ a conversational yet introspective tone in their investigation of personal consciousness and demonstrate Parini's firm command over his art. In The Love Run, the author's first novel, Parini transposes the myth of Apollo and Daphne from Ovid's Metamorphoses to contemporary times. Drawing attention to love's obsessive power, in Parini's version a dull-witted Teddy Leskovitch kidnaps Dartmouth College student Maisie Danston, who actually comes to choose the ardent Teddy over her romantically dull boyfriend. For his second novel, The Patch Boys (1986), Parini returns to the world of his childhood. While it takes place in 1925, decades before the author's birth, the novel is set in the Pennsylvania coal mining country and brings to life the long-since-gone world of the Scranton anthracite mines. Narrated in the protagonist's Italian-American idiom, the story focuses on the coming-of-age of fifteen-year-old Sammy diCantini, who lives near the "patches" of houses built near the anthracite mines.
With the novel The Last Station Parini enters the realm of biographical fiction, creating a fictional account of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy during his last year of life that culminates in Tolstoy's fatal abandonment of the estate where he spent his entire life. The story is told from the various perspectives of several narrators, among them Tolstoy's wife, daughter, and doctor. The novel Bay of Arrows (1992) is an unconventional commemoration of the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the Americas. The story juxtaposes a portrait of the famed explorer with that of Christopher Genovese, a contemporary English professor-poet who, after being accused of sexual harassment by a student, moves with his family to the Dominican Republic. In Benjamin's Crossing Parini revisits the genre of biographical fiction, this time taking as his subject Walter Benjamin, the renowned German Jewish intellectual whose writings significantly influenced contemporary literary theory. The novel focuses on Benjamin's final days as he attempts to flee occupied France to escape the Nazis; after being refused entry into Spain, and suffering from heart disease, Benjamin apparently commits suicide. Parini also writes in a more traditional biographical form as evident in John Steinbeck: A Biography (1995) in which he delivers a sympathetic reconsideration of a writer whose literary reputation has not fared as well as other more acclaimed contemporaries such as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. In Robert Frost: A Life (1999), Parini offers a portrait of his favorite poet which reveals Frost's own attempts to overcome personal tragedy through artistic creativity. Parini also edited and contributed to Gore Vidal: Writer Against the Grain (1992), a volume of scholarly essays and reviews on an author famous for his own biographical fiction, though, as Parini contends, remains underappreciated. Having already worked on numerous anthologies, Parini took on his most challenging editorial task with The Columbia History of American Poetry, a volume of scholarly essays that highlights a diverse array of important American poets and poetic movements from the colonial era to the present day.
Critical Reception
Critical response to Parini's writings is almost as varied as his literary output. His volumes of poetry, particularly Anthracite County and Town Life, attract positive assessment and helped establish his literary reputation. Reviewers praise Anthracite County for the honesty and risk-taking of Parini's poems and his deft handling of language. Parini also received favorable reviews for his first two novels, notably The Patch Boys, which critics commend for its insightful portrayal of adolescent discovery and complex depiction of labor problems. The Last Station was a welcome surprise to the literary establishment, considering that its protagonist, Tolstoy, had heretofore been the subject of an immense number of biographies and other critical works. Critics praise the biographical novel for offering a faithful rendering of Tolstoy's last months and for presenting a intricate portrait of Tolstoy's art and difficult personal life. Parini's subsequent novels, Bay of Arrows and Benjamin's Crossing, however, are not consistently well regarded. While Bay of Arrows is praised as an entertaining and stimulating novel, it is also criticized for exhibiting a lack of substance. Benjamin's Crossing is acknowledged for presenting an accurate account of Benjamin's last days and for succinctly describing many of his ideas, but is also faulted in its portrayal of Benjamin as an intellectual. Parini's nonfiction biographies of Steinbeck and Frost also received differing reviews. John Steinbeck is praised for both its readability and its reconsideration of an author often neglected by university academics, though Parini is panned by some for a lack of objective distance, failing to bolster Steinbeck scholarship, and an overly sympathetic treatment of his subject. In contrast Robert Frost—which received the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for the Best Work of Nonfiction in 1999—finds almost universal critical acclaim and is regarded as an informative perspective on the popular American poet's approach to his craft, though somewhat wanting in analysis of Frost's inner, especially intellectual, life. As editor of Gore Vidal, Parini received near unanimous praise for his part in establishing academic interest in Vidal's writings. In numerous major periodicals, critics highly extol The Norton Book of American Autobiography, which Parini edited and published in 1999. Critics are not as generous, however, in their appraisal of Parini's work as editor of The Columbia History of American Poetry. As expected, reviewers fault the work for its omission of various poets. Critics generally agree that, despite its many excellent essays and the difficult and contentious question of what exactly constitutes "American" poetry, The Columbia History of American Poetry falls short as a definitive "history" of American poetry due to its inability to unify its disparate subjects and perspectives, but still offers the reader a provocative consideration of what William Carlos Williams called "the American language."
Principal Works
Singing in Time (poetry) 1972
Theodore Roethke: An American Romantic (criticism) 1979
The Love Run (novel) 1980
Richard Eberhart: A Celebration [editor; with M. Robin Barone and Sydney Lea] (nonfiction) 1980
Anthracite County (poetry) 1982
The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry [editor; with Robert Pack] (poetry) 1985
The Patch Boys (novel) 1986
An Invitation to Poetry (nonfiction) 1987
The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Short Stories [editor; with Robert Pack] (short stories) 1987
Town Life (poetry) 1988
The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Essays [editor; with Robert Pack] (essays) 1989
The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year (novel) 1990
Bay of Arrows (novel) 1992
Gore Vidal: Writer Against the Grain [editor] (criticism) 1992
The Columbia History of American Poetry [editor; with Brett C. Miller] (criticism) 1993
Poems for a Small Planet: Contemporary American Nature Poetry [editor; with Robert Pack] (poetry) 1993
American Identities: Contemporary Multicultural Voices [editor; with Robert Pack] (essays) 1994
John Steinbeck: A Biography (biography) 1995
The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry [editor] (poetry) 1995
Benjamin's Crossing (novel) 1996
Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem [editor; Robert Pack] (essays) 1996
Beyond the Godfather: Italian American Writers on the Real Italian American Experience [editor; with A. Kenneth Ciongoli] (essays) 1997
Some Necessary Angels: Essays on Writing and Politics (essays) 1997
Introspections: American Poets on One of Their Own Poems [editor; with Robert Pack] (essays) 1997
House of Days: Poems (poetry) 1998
The Norton Book of American Autobiography [editor] (autobiographies) 1999
Robert Frost: A Life (biography) 1999
Lewis Stone (review date 19 October 1986)
SOURCE: A review of The Patch Boys, in Los Angeles Times Book Review, October 19, 1986, p. 3.
[In the following review, Stone offers a positive assessment of The Patch Boys.]
The easy rhythms and harsh reality of "patch" towns where coal was king. People with names like Will, Bing, Jesse, Lucey, and "The Nipper." Boys sneaking puffs of Fatima cigarettes while gazing in rapture at passing Pierce-Arrow automobiles. Purple twilight in a tent along the banks of the Susquehanna. Idle talk of Babe Ruth and Roger "The Rajah" Hornsby. Fields and woods shimmering in heat while far below in the black bowels of the earth, men labor and die. A young boy with...
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Thomas D'Evelyn (review date 10 August 1990)
SOURCE: "Tolstoy's Tumult," in The Christian Science Monitor, August 10, 1990, p. 14.
[In the following review, D'Evelyn offers positive assessment of The Last Station.]
Once involved in this famously unhappy family, it's impossible not to take sides. Jay Parini's witty, immensely moving presentation of the Tolstoys, Sofya and Leo [The Last Station], concentrates on the last year of the writer's life the year he finally took steps to put distance between himself and his wife of 50 years.
Parini has used the journals of both Tolstoys, their children, and the "Tolstoyans," to provide as objective a view of the matter as possible. Of...
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Edward Condren (review date 9 September 1990)
SOURCE: "Tolstoy's Final Days," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, September 9, 1990, p. 4.
[In the following review, Condren offers a positive evaluation of The Last Station.]
Tolstoy was one of the greatest novelists in any language. As a man whose ideals often contradicted his life, he has a less certain reputation.
Among his many idiosyncrasies, none seems more apparent, nor more responsible for tormenting his last months, than his habit of laying guilt upon others to atone for his own excesses; or, to turn the same coin on its opposite side, his fondness for half-baked ideals which actually arose from some personal inability. For example,...
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Virginia Quarterly Review (review date Winter 1991)
Virginia Quarterly Review (review date Winter 1991)
SOURCE: A review of The Last Station, in Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 67, No. 1, Winter, 1991, p. 21.
[In the following review, the critic offers a brief positive assessment of The Last Station.]
Widely reviewed and well-received (Gore Vidal calls it "easily one of the best historical novels written in the last twenty years"), poet and novelist Jay Parini's story [The Last Station] is concerned with the 82nd, last year (1910) in the life of the great Leo Tolstoy and, in the words of the publisher, "dances bewitchingly between fact and fiction." Parini has based...
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John Bayley (review date 28 December-3 January 1991)
SOURCE: "A Household and Its Head," in Times Literary Supplement, December 28-January 3, 1991, p. 1408.
[In the following review, Bayley offers a favorable evaluation of The Last Station.]
In spite of the eulogy on the cover by Gore Vidal, himself the pioneer of a remarkable new kind of historical novel, I began this book rather sceptically. Biographers have surely drained the last of Tolstoy dry, recording the latest period of his life from every angle—that of his wife, his daughters, his young secretary Bulgakov, his medical adviser Dr Makovitsky, the odious but somehow also pathetic disciple and bad angel. Vladimir Chertkov, A. N. Wilson's biography, Anne...
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Tom Wilhelmus (review date Spring 1991)
SOURCE: "Visionary Historians," in Hudson Review, Vol. XLIV, No. 1, Spring, 1991, pp. 125-32.
[In the following excerpted review essay, Wilhelmus offers a positive assessment of The Last Station.]
History, mother of truth; the idea is astounding. Menard, a contemporary of William James, does not define history as an investigation of reality, but as its origin. Historical truth, for him, is not what took place; it is what we think took place. The final clauses—example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future—are shamelessly pragmatic.
—Jorge Luis Borges, from "Pierre Menard,...
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D. M. Thomas (review date 23 August 1992)
SOURCE: "All That Glitters," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, August 23, 1992, pp. 3, 12.
[In the following review, Thomas offers a favorable assessment of Bay of Arrows.]
Jay Parini begins his new novel [Bay of Arrows] with a short scene richly evoking the arrival of Columbus in the New World. A cacique and his high priest gaze in awe at the three caravals standing in the ultramarine bay. They are ancestors, says the high priest, they are returning to claim kinship. The cacique, deeply impressed by these words, resolves to make the supreme sacrifice of his only daughter. The beautiful black-eyed maiden is bathed and anointed, then tied naked to a stake....
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Merle Rubin (review date 6 October 1992)
SOURCE: "The Tale of a Not-So-Heroic Hero," in The Christian Science Monitor, October 6, 1992, p. 13.
[In the following review of Bay of Arrows, Rubin describes Parini's novel as "unobjectionable" but "less profound than it pretends to be."]
Apart from a small, but persistent, scholarly dispute as to whether he, Leif Ericson, or someone else ought to be credited with discovering the New World, Christopher Columbus enjoyed a fairly glorious reputation for most of the five centuries following his famous voyage.
Honored for his courage in braving the unknown, his contribution to proving that the earth really was round, and his...
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Andrew Rosenheim (review date 30 October 1992)
SOURCE: A review of Bay of Arrows, in Times Literary Supplement, October 30, 1992, p. 20.
[In the following review, Rosenheim offers a tempered assessment of Bay of Arrows, which he characterizes as a "campus novel."]
Christopher "Geno" Genovese is a forty-two year-old poet, teaching at a small college in Vermont and suffering from a fairly standard mid-life crisis. His writing has come to a virtual standstill, his marriage is weakening, his two young sons seem remote and unintelligible to him. As in most campus novels, little is made in Bay of Arrows of Geno's professional commitments; predictably, his relations with students are...
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Robert Coover (review date 26 March 1993)
SOURCE: "Resurrection," in New Statesman and Society, March 26, 1993, pp. 37-8.
[In the following review, Coover offers a positive evaluation of The Last Station.]
The 20th century has produced so many monsters and so few even-might-be saints that the temptation is to cling on to the few moral exemplars we inherited from the 19th: Schweitzer, Gandhi, Tolstoy … the list seeps into the sands already. Written from the points of view of six protagonists, including Leo Nikolayevich, the American poet Jay Parini's novel [The Last Station] appears at first to be little more than another appliqué of varnish in the Tolstoy hagiographic tradition, all breathless...
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Zachary Leader (review date 15 April 1994)
SOURCE: "Simple, Clear, Generous, and Lucky," in Times Literary Supplement, April 15, 1994, p. 25.
[In the following review, Leader discusses John Steinbeck's literary career and Parini's biography of him, which Leader finds to be an insubstantial contribution to existing Steinbeck scholarship.]
The chief virtues of John Steinbeck's writing are those he associated with superiority in all its forms: "simplicity, clarity, and generosity". The best stories and novels quickly grip and proceed with easy, confident economy. Their effects are straightforward, unstrained, which may help account for their popularity both with the young and in translation, as well as...
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Paul Binding (review date 6 May 1994)
SOURCE: "Paupers to Presidents," in New Statesman and Society, May 6, 1994, pp. 37-8.
[In the following review, Binding offers a favorable assessment of John Steinbeck.]
Perhaps we all met Steinbeck too young; there can be few readers, particularly in his own America, who have missed having The Red Pony, The Pearl or—for all its unflinching grimness—Of Mice and Men put their way during their schooldays. And so they have tended, as they moved forward into wider reading, to relegate him to some unsophisticated region, a perpetual adolescence of sensibility. Jay Parini reminds us [in John Steinbeck] that many fewer academic studies of...
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Paul Foot (review date 7 May 1994)
SOURCE: "The Sun Went Down with His Wrath," in The Spectator, May 7, 1994, p. 28.
[In the following review, Foot offers unfavorable assessment of John Steinbeck, finding Parini's depiction of Steinbeck disjointed and overprotective.]
John Steinbeck's great novel about the migrant workers of the American depression, The Grapes of Wrath, was published in May 1939. The original print was 19,804. By the end of 1939 it had sold 430,000. Every year since then, Jay Parini tells us, the novel has never sold less than 50,000.
At the time, not everyone rejoiced. The 'Okies' who fled or were evicted from the dustbowl were...
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Robert J. Corber (review date Summer 1994)
SOURCE: A review of Gore Vidal, in Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 40, No. 2, Summer, 1994, pp. 377-8.
[In the following review, Corber offers a positive evaluation of Gore Vidal.]
Gore Vidal is arguably one of the most important writers of his generation. Unusually prolific, he has published over twenty novels, several collections of essays, a volume of short stories, five Broadway plays, and several screenplays. Moreover, his treatment of gay male experience in such novels as The City and the Pillar (1948) and Myra Brickingridge (1968) helped pave the way for the gay liberation movement of the late 1960s. Vidal's refusal to treat gay male identity...
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Charles Tomlinson (review date 21 October 1994)
SOURCE: "True Nature First Inspires the Man," in Times Literary Supplement, October 21, 1994, pp. 22-3.
[In the following review, Tomlinson discusses American poetry and offers a positive evaluation of The Columbia History of American Poetry.]
"American poetry is a very easy subject to discuss for the simple reason that it does not exist." This italicized passage (unattributed) appears in Book Three of William Carlos Williams's Paterson, Williams having excerpted it from an article of George Barker's published in Poetry London in 1948. Tackled almost twenty years later by Mike Weaver, then in the preliminary stages of his book on...
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Charles Altieri (review date December 1994)
SOURCE: A review of The Columbia History of American Poetry, in Journal of American History, Vol. 81, No. 3, December, 1994, pp. 1258-9.
[In the following review, Altieri offers an unfavorable assessment of The Columbia History of American Poetry,citing omissions and empty homages.]
The first two-thirds of this collection of essays [The Columbia History of America Poetry,] provides a lively, informative, and intellectually stimulating treatment of the major moments in American poetry up to World War II. Some of the work offers engaging and useful traditional literary history—of Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor; of early African-American poetry;...
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Ed Folsom (review date December 1994)
SOURCE: A review of The Columbia History of American Poetry, in American Literature, Vol. 66, No. 4, December, 1994, pp. 832-3.
[In the following review, Folsom offers an unfavorable assessment of The Columbia History of American Poetry,noting that "the overall result is an uninformed and internally contradictory history."]
This volume [The Columbia History of American Poetry] has the look and heft of a history of American poetry, but it does not read like one. It reads more like The Columbia Big Book of Essays on American Poetry. Like the Columbia Literary History of the United States (1988), this project betrays suspicions about...
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Mark Jarman (review date Winter 1995)
SOURCE: "Shifting Sands: The Columbia History of American Poetry," in Hudson Review, Vol. XLVII, No. 4, Winter, 1995, pp. 641-7.
[In the following review, Jarman provides an extended analysis of The Columbia History of American Poetry,noting both the volume's flaws and strengths.]
In the mid-1600s, as the Massachusetts colonist Anne Bradstreet was writing the poems that would be published in London in 1650 as The Tenth Muse Lately sprung up in America, the oral tradition of Native American poetry was uniting use and beauty inextricably, though in ways unknown and even ignored until Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, two hundred years later, tried to...
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Mark Shechner (review date 12 February 1995)
SOURCE: "Laureate of the Underdog," in Washington Post Book World, February 12, 1995, pp. 4-5.
[In the following review, Shechner discusses Steinbeck's literary career and Parini's biography of Steinbeck.]
The first clause of any brief on John Steinbeck's behalf is that he was the quintessence of Main Street, Huck Finn with a typewriter, who put no stock in Europe or its cultural exports. Painfully shy and short on social graces, self-educated (a wayward student at Stanford, he never graduated), ignorant of art or music until he discovered jazz late in life, innocent of abstract ideas except about biological interdependence, and a true-blue binge drinker—he was...
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Brian A. Bremen (review date Spring 1995)
SOURCE: A review of The Columbia History of American Poetry, in American Studies, Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring, 1995, pp. 195-6.
[In the following review of The Columbia History of American Poetry, Bremen discusses the difficulty of compiling such a volume and the successes and shortcomings of Parini's History.]
Recounting his signing on as editor for The Columbia History of American Literature, Emory Elliot told the audience at last year's MLA convention that it was done via instructions from a self-destructing tape recorder, with the theme from Mission Impossible playing in the background. No doubt Jay Parini heard the same tune as he compiled...
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John Piller (review date Spring 1995)
SOURCE: "A Poetry History for the 1990's," in Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 71, No. 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 362-6.
[In the following review, Piller offers a positive evaluation of The Columbia History of American Poetry, though notes shortcomings in the volume's limited treatment of contemporary poetry.]
In The Columbia History of American Poetry editors Jay Parini and Brett C. Miller have given us the politically correct critical volume for the 1990's. On the whole, this is a good thing, for they have accurately reflected the current thinking about American poetry. Their method was simple. They simply solicited a diverse group of writers from...
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Jonathan Vos Post (review date Summer 1995)
SOURCE: A review of The Columbia History of American Poetry, in Extrapolation, Vol. 36, No. 2, Summer, 1995, pp. 160-3.
[In the following review of The Columbia History of American Poetry, Vos Post comments on the lack of "science" poets and poetry in the volume.]
Since the United States of America put human beings on the moon twenty-five years ago, it is no surprise that science is profoundly "In the American Grain," and this is amply confirmed by a thematic thread running through The Columbia History of American Poetry. This is not to say that science dominates American poetry as much as it dominates the physical landscape of the...
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Willard Spiegelman (review date Summer-Fall 1995)
SOURCE: "History By Many Hands," in Kenyon Review, Vol. XVII, Nos. 3-4, Summer-Fall, 1995, pp. 219-24.
[In the following extended review of The Columbia History of American Poetry, Spiegelman weighs the volume's weaknesses against its strengths and concludes that it contains disparate perspectives and inconsistencies which detract from the work as a whole.]
David Perkins is the most recent in a long, scholarly line to pose the question, as the title of his elegant 1992 book puts it, Is Literary History Possible?, and to answer with the ambivalent response that, on the one hand, it is not, but that, on the other, we had better keep doing it. The...
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Andrew C. Higgins (review date Fall 1995)
SOURCE: A review of The Columbia History of American Poetry, in Melus, Vol. 20, No. 3, Fall, 1995, pp. 154-6.
[In the following review, Higgins praises the general quality of The Columbia History of American Poetry, though finds fault in its exclusionary focus on major figures and its failure to address the cultural significance of American poetry.]
At the present moment, a wide spectrum of claims are being made about the health of American poetry. More poetry is being published in America today than ever before, and yet poets regularly complain about a lack of readers, especially outside the university. The editors of poetry journals regularly complain...
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Kevin Hearle (review date December 1995)
SOURCE: A review of John Steinbeck, in American Literature, Vol. 67, No. 4, December, 1995, pp. 881-2.
[In the following review, Hearle offers a negative assessment of John Steinbeck.]
The British edition of this book [John Steinbeck] contained so many errors that this American edition was delayed almost a year, and still there are so many problems with this biography that its value as a scholarly reference is negligible. At his best Parini merely rewrites Jackson Benson's earlier and much superior biography of Steinbeck; at his worst Parini displays an almost humorous ignorance of California geography and of Steinbeck's work. In his discussion of...
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Marvin J. LaHood (review date Winter 1996)
SOURCE: A review of Gore Vidal, in World Literature Today, Vol. 70, No. 1, Winter, 1996, pp. 191-2.
[In the following review, LaHood offers a favorable assessment of Gore Vidal.]
Gore Vidal has written over twenty novels (starting with Williwaw in 1946), three mystery novels under the pseudonym of Edgar Box, nearly a hundred television scripts, a volume of short stories, two very successful Broadway plays (Visit to a Small Planet, 338 performances; and The Best Man, 520 performances), film scripts, and a collection of essays on literature and politics. He ran for Congress in 1960 in New York; in 1982 he ran in the Democratic primary for the...
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David Watt (review date Winter 1996)
SOURCE: "Liking Steinbeck," in Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 72, No. 1, Winter, 1996, pp. 155-9.
[In the following review, Watt offers a positive assessment of John Steinbeck, which he regards as a homage to its subject rather than a work of scholarship.]
Steinbeck didn't much—like Steinbeck. Well into his forties he remained self-dismissive. As a young man his chosen emblem was Pigasus, the flying pig. Sensitive about his appearance—the protruding ears, hulking upper body, Oil Can Harry mustache, and, later, pointy goatee—he likened himself to the devil. "Don't you go liking people, Jim. We can't waste time liking people." Mac issues this...
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Stephen Allison (review date Spring 1996)
SOURCE: A review of John Steinbeck, in Antioch Review, Vol. 54, No. 2, Spring, 1996, p. 245.
[In the following review, Allison offers a favorable assessment of John Steinbeck.]
[In John Steinbeck] Parini does not ignore the popular question among academics, referred to by Donald R. Noble as "the Steinbeck question"—"Why," Noble asked, "has Steinbeck not received the intense academic scrutiny awarded his peers?" In other words, why is Steinbeck not considered a great American writer like Hemingway and Faulkner? Parini addresses this question, but his main focus is how Steinbeck's creative powers endured despite the odds against him. This...
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Joe Moran (review date April 1996)
SOURCE: A review of Gore Vidal, in Journal of American Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1, April, 1996, pp. 160-1.
[In the following review, Moran offers a positive assessment of Gore Vidal, though notes a lack of focus in the volume.]
This collection [Gore Vidal: Writer Against the Grain], published in hardback in 1992, announced itself as the first serious book-length study of Vidal, aside from the usual Twayne and Frederick Ungar volumes intended primarily for undergraduates. It consists of a series of nineteen essays, half specially commissioned and half pre-published, sandwiched between a long introduction/career summary and an interview with the author...
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Jeffrey Mehlman (review date 18 May 1997)
SOURCE: "Critical Overdose," in Washington Post Book World, May 18, 1997, p. 7.
[In the following review, Mehlman offers an unfavorable assessment of Benjamin's Crossing.]
Walter Benjamin, the subject of Jay Parini's new novel [Benjamin's Crossing], is as close as the self-styled iconoclasts of the literary-theory crowd have come to producing a genuine icon. A delver into the devious autonomy of signs, Benjamin, a German Jew, wrote his major work—on the arcane subject of German tragic drama—in the 1920s. Baroque "allegory" was the touchstone of semiotic perversity in that work, "intercepting" images of plenitude, waking readers from their every...
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David S. Gross (review date Spring 1998)
SOURCE: A review of Benjamin's Crossing, in World Literature Today, Vol. 72, No. 2, Spring, 1998, p. 372.
[In the following review, Gross offers a positive assessment of Benjamin's Crossing, despite what he asserts are its inaccuracies concerning Marxist thought.]
Benjamin's Crossing is identified on the title page as a novel. And that it is. It also has as its main character a real person, who can lay claim to being the most original and important thinker of the twentieth century. Jay Parini's novel is quite good, but would probably not get much notice were it not about Walter Benjamin. As a book "about" Benjamin it has both its moments...
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Jason Mauro (review date March 1999)
SOURCE: A review of Some Necessary Angels, in American Literature, Vol. 71, No. 1, March, 1999, pp. 205-6.
[In the following review, Mauro offers a tempered assessment of Some Necessary Angels.]
This collection of essays [Some Necessary Angels] is an uneven array of homages, nostalgic meditations, and reflections on the "writing life" that seems at odds with itself. While some of these pieces individually are engaging, as collected, they create some tension among themselves, revealing lapses and distracting inconsistencies.
In his chapter "Mentors," Parini pays tribute to Alistair Reid, Robert Penn Warren, and Gore Vidal, each of...
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Denis Donoghue (review date 21 October 1999)
SOURCE: "Frost: The Icon and the Man," in The New York Review of Books, October 21, 1999, pp. 17-8, 20-1.
[In the following review of Parini's biography of Robert Frost, Donoghue discusses Frost's life, legacy, and critical assessment of his work.]
In the middle of June 1957 Robert Frost arrived in Dublin at the end of a goodwill tour for the State Department: he had been to London, Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, and Durham. His next assignment was to receive an honorary degree from the National University of Ireland; then he was free to spend four or five days being feted. He was accompanied by Lawrance Thompson, since 1939 his...
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Monday, November 9, 2009
Fragrance Review: YSL Parisienne
Today will be my first time reviewing a fragrance. Recently, I was sent the new YSL Parisienne perfume to test out. At first, I was a little wary. I'm very sensitive to perfumes and colognes due to a history of asthma and allergies...anything too strong makes me dizzy and gives me a headache. However, I was definitely willing to try it out.
I had heard about this perfume...I read an article about it in Marie Claire and saw the super sexy Kate Moss commercial. Apparently, this scent is supposed to be a mix of floral and woodsy with hints of blackberry, sandalwood, and damask rosk. Interestingly enough, the article I read stated that this perfume was supposed to be a reflection of a night out on the town with that sexy someone...then comes the overnight/sleepover portion wink wink, and the day after. We call it the "walk of shame" but Parisiennes apparently walk with pride and freeness and enjoy the memories that linger the day after. The fragrance is aimed not at Parisiennes, but for women longing to be adopted by Paris. You gotta watch the commercial, super sexy! If this fragrance makes me feel like a leather clad Kate Moss riding on the back of a motorcycle in the streets of Paris, I'm willing to give it a go!
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As soon as I opened the box, I liked the packaging. It's very sophisticated with a prism like cut to the lavendar colored glass bottle. I definitely wouldn't mind putting this on top of my vanity. I like to spray a few spritzes in my hair so that the scent lasts longer. To me, the scent was floral and rosey but with an edge of fruit and exoticness. I'm used to liking girly, fruity sweet smells...but I actually really liked this. It's more mature but still fresh and definitely sexy. It's not like anything else out there on the market. The scent lasts a good while and even seems to change and evolve over time. I knew the boyfriend loved it because he couldn't stop sniffing me! He kept saying, "Look at you smelling like a grown woman!" LOL! This is also very reasonably priced ranging from $39 to $85 depending on the size. I would definitely recommend testing this one out.
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- jassydevil said...
I also LOVE this perfume! I am dreaming that I will get it for Christmas lol. I think YSL perfumes are just made for me - I seem to like every one they come out with, including the mens', and still remember that YSL Yvresse was my first 'Grown up' expensive perfume! (Especially since I bought it in Milan on my first European trip) :)
- November 9, 2009 at 11:25 AM
- Gemma said...
I sprayed it all over myself at ULTA lol! It smells so good!!! I am thinking of putting it on my xmas list but I also want Dior Cherie perfume...decisions decisions
- November 9, 2009 at 11:25 AM
- Ada Luxe said...
I miss the original YSL Baby Doll....oh it was so fruity. Ren Ren you should check out Narcisco Rodriguez for her. When I worked at Nordstrom my counter manager would always wear it and I would always ask her what are you wearing but she always kept it a secret..until one day she gave in. I wore it to a friends wedding and when one of my friends fiance hugged me he said.."oh my you smell so good, please tell me fiance to wear it on our wedding day." I almost died - then he sent 2 other guys over to smell me and they were like "dam girl...you smell good." SO WEIRD.
- November 9, 2009 at 11:56 AM
- LoveBLENDnBeauty said...
i looove this perfume! i smelled it in Macy's and couldn't let the sample card go haha. it's definitely on my Christmas wishlist!! or maybe i'll get it earlier, knowing me, hah! =]
- November 9, 2009 at 11:26 PM
- alittlebitofevrything said...
i loveeee this perfume! i never bought perfumes before, closest thing i bought to a scent was the victoria's secret body sprays haha. this perfume is so subtle yet sexy and not too overpowering. i absolutely love it! thanks for your review :)
- November 9, 2009 at 11:27 PM
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A Little Help from my FriendsPosted Saturday, August 23, 2008, at 12:22 PM
Minnie's new blog is such an inspiration to me this morning that I'm going to bite the bullet and post a new blog, myself! Yes, yes, it is reassuring to find Minnie's words of wisdom and frustration waiting for me, as I stumble downstairs at 4 a.m., awake again and unable to get back to sleep, worrying over the truly idiotic things that plague our aging minds in the wee hours of the morning...
This morning it's the AT&T wireless bill that they sent me online...And is there anything I can do about it at 4 a.m.? Of course not, but there it is, staring me in the face when I awake from another restless dream...back hurts, head hurts, nose is stopped up...little red numbers on the clock can't be right...
I fix a pot of coffee and come into the living room to power up all my mechanical friends - Hello, Computer, Television, Floor Fan... The AT&T lady calls her computer "Fred." Yes, says I, I knew computers were male. Anything that darned contrary has to be of the masculine gender.
I feed the cats (they're real, so they have to be fed, or they'll eat me as I doze on the couch...) I pop on the blogs to wake up. Ahhhhhhhhh......dear Minnie in the Morning! Thank you, thank you! Minnie and a cuppa coffee!
Today I'm trying to get ready for my darling daughter's "old" college roommate's shower and wedding reception this week in St. Louis. The room mate is also a former student of mine, so I've agreed to tag along, despite the fact that the wedding was in Jamaica a month or so ago. This is all very confusing to me, but I will try to adapt...
I had planned to wear black. Black hides a variety of body and psychological issues. However, Darling Daughter tells me that I might want to choose a "brighter" color, since the theme of the shower is, after all, Jamaican...
I look through my closet to see if I have something that looks "Jamaican." Since I never throw anything away, I have lovely outfits that were perfectly in style from 1975 through 1997, when I suddenly lost whatever meager interest I had ever had in clothes.
Finally, I find a bright, floral blouse that I had bought at some unknown date in the past. It's been worn one time, I think. Had to be ironed. Need I say more?
After a brief nap on the couch, during which I dream that Obama announced Biden as his running mate, I get up and stagger into the laundry room, dragging out my ancient ironing board with the ragged cover, searching through drawers for the iron, an ancient relic which still works, so I find no need to replace it.
I grab for the spray starch and come up with the Rid-a-Bug Flying Insect killer. Oops! Caught myself just in time!
As I iron, I think of those days when I was a kid, and Mom taught me to press the cotton shirts. I see her hand with the tiny gold wedding ring. Those were good days. I press the hot metal on the collar, and then the yoke, and then the sleeves. I pay especial attention to the facing, so it'll stay in place, and I think of how we used to sprinkle the clothes, roll them up, and put them in a plastic bag to get soft. Then, we stood for hours and hours, ironing clothes and hanging them from the door facings - so the room was filled with sweet-smelling shirts and dresses. The whites had a faint, clean smell of bleach. I don't recall fabric softener being around then. No spray starch back then, either; we had to dip the clothes in a big tub of starch and wring them out. Boy, were they stiff when they dried on the line!
I don't iron much anymore, but I guess it's like riding a bike (which I haven't done since '75)- You never forget.
Now the rest of my Saturday awaits me. I've settled my business with AT&T and didn't even yell at the second person who helped me... I have three articles of freshly-ironed clothing to wear.. Life is good!
From the green, newly-washed hills of Tillman, this is your Roving Reporter, Madeline, hanging on for another day...with a little help from my friends!
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OH, Madeline.....
What dear memories you bring back to a body and mind that refuse to give in to this thing they call "age."
Starch...now there's a memory. And "bluing," or is is "blueing,"... at any rate, any items that met their acquaintance on "laundry day" (yes, there used to be such a designated day)...came out whiter than white (hence, the "blue") and stiff as a board. I recall my dear father's shirts returned from the cleaners, stiff collar and all, ready for the navy tie with the little red and white specks for Sunday Mass.
I, too, recall the moistening of the laundry, even the sheets and boxers...sprinkled with water from a basin by the side of the ironing board, then as you recall, rolled and placed side-by-side with the rest of the laundry (a family of 11 produced an ample amount). My mother, as I recall, never seemed to mind. She'd shake out the rolled dampened item, spread it over the folding ironing board, which was only brought out on Saturday night, and iron away while watching Gunsmoke. Between trying to figure out the relationship between Marshall Dillon and Kitty and how Chester acquired that limp, she managed to press four laundry baskets full of dampened pre-rolled items, so that when school resumed Monday morning, we'd all be starched and ready for the new week!
Thanks, Madeline, for resurrecting some long forgotten memories.
-- Posted by bringwine on Sat, Aug 23, 2008, at 2:33 PM
Chester got that 'limp' from trying on one of Minnie's 'shanks', I believe it was.....and bluing is the correct spelling, I always wondered what happened to the 'e'!!!!!
And MD, I hope AT&T gave you a big refund on your bill.....lol......funny how its hard to get back to sleep at 4 AM. Hope your Jamaican trip goes well and the colorful blouse blends right in.
-- Posted by changedname on Sat, Aug 23, 2008, at 8:15 PM
At least we don't have to read about squeezing fat into some type of contraption.
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Sat, Aug 23, 2008, at 9:07 PM
That should be 'spanks', dont know where the 'shanks' came from!!!
-- Posted by changedname on Sun, Aug 24, 2008, at 6:30 AM
Haha! Thanks for the clarification, dexterite. I thought I'd missed something when I read "shanks."
I don't remember how old I was when I asked my mother if I could start ironing, but she started me out on my dad's handkerchiefs. From there, I graduated up to shirts, but it was a while before I could tackle the dresses, if I remember right.
Good memories!
-- Posted by goat lady on Sun, Aug 24, 2008, at 8:33 AM
My name is Bobby and I hate to iron! Good story MD!
-- Posted by greer958 on Mon, Aug 25, 2008, at 11:23 AM
GL, how funny! I, too, started out ironing my father's handkerchiefs and moved up from there. My mother also sprinkled the ironing, rolled it up and put it in a plastic bag and then started ironing the live-long day. She was pretty fast. I was not. Never really got the hang of it. Thank goodness.
Now I buy things that don't have to be ironed. My absolute favorite fabric is something called "crinkle cotton." It's actually supposed to be wrinkled. Right down my alley.
"Like riding a bike..." My gosh, have you actually tried to do it lately? I did. I think I forgot how. It wasn't pretty --- or comfortable.
-- Posted by Ducky on Mon, Aug 25, 2008, at 11:31 AM
My mom always used a glass Pepsi bottle with a cork sprinkler attachment to sprinkle with. My girls never iron, and I just don't understand it. I love to see the wadded-up pile turn into neatly hung. Sort of a chaos-to-order thing. But the girls think I'm slightly OCD. By the way, I've been up since 4:00 am today. When we're young, we look forward to sleeping late in old age, but it doesn't happen. One more of life's jokes!
-- Posted by gardengirl on Mon, Aug 25, 2008, at 3:05 PM
Oh, gardengirl, you sound like my clone!! Haha! We should exchange phone numbers, so we can call each other at 4 a.m. and chat!!!
AND we could get together and have IRONING PARTIES!! HAHAHA!!
Oh, well....forget the chatting at 4 a.m....I'm practically brain dead at that hour..
-- Posted by goat lady on Mon, Aug 25, 2008, at 7:41 PM
Oh, Bobby --- cute guys like you don't need to iron!! Hehe!
-- Posted by goat lady on Mon, Aug 25, 2008, at 7:46 PM
He IS cute, isn't he? Hey, Bobby, maybe you can get someone to volunteer to do your ironing. It won't be me, of course, but maybe when goat lady and gardengirl have one of their ironing parties....
-- Posted by Ducky on Wed, Aug 27, 2008, at 10:42 AM
Cotton is my favorite material! We always used a Pepsi bottle w/cork to "sprinkle" our clothes, too. I've done some of my best thinking while smoothing out the wrinkles!
-- Posted by ct on Wed, Aug 27, 2008, at 10:55 AM
Yaaaawwwwwn. I thought Minnie and Maddie were the same gal?
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Wed, Aug 27, 2008, at 1:36 PM
Guess that's what you get for thinking. Not everything has to be interesting for you hoon.
-- Posted by mrsdolphin on Wed, Aug 27, 2008, at 9:26 PM
Hahaha! Dolphin, if we make the blog boring enough for hoooooniebaby, maybe he'll decide not to check it, and we can talk about what WE want to! Here goes:
Ironing is so much fun....I like to iron cotton, and silk...and organza...and corduroy...and muslin...and tea towels...and handkerchiefs...and terrycloth....and leather...and swede....and swifter dust cloths...and carpets...and upholstery...and car seats...and drapes...and stuffed toys....and lampshades...and lawnmower seats....and cheese sandwiches...(How am I doing??)
-- Posted by goat lady on Sat, Aug 30, 2008, at 5:33 PM
...and linen...and Hostess Twinkies...and sheets...and pillowcases...
-- Posted by goat lady on Sun, Aug 31, 2008, at 8:37 AM
don't forget those bothersome fingers that somehow always get in the way GL
-- Posted by SKDellinger on Tue, Sep 2, 2008, at 10:11 PM
...fingers...and toes...and an occasional rose..
-- Posted by goat lady on Fri, Sep 5, 2008, at 7:06 AM
The only thing I've ever ironed is my husband's Naval uniforms. The creases had to be SO precise!..even in his work uniforms. I'm honestly glad I don't have to do that anymore. I'm definetely a child of Generation X...like my dad said a few weeks ago...you can tell kids from that generation because you can always find a pile of laundry stacked up somewhere!
-- Posted by mrsdolphin on Fri, Sep 5, 2008, at 7:57 PM
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When he was a little boy, jewelry designer Marco Bicego visited his father's goldsmith factory every summer. He watched the craftsmen, eventually trying the art out for himself. Jewelry making is in his blood, and he uses the medium to tell his own story. "My aim [is] to express my personal vision of life, my passions and my curiosity through jewelry design," says Bicego.
On Tuesday, November 13, Marco Bicego will be at the Saks Fifth Avenue in Palm Beach Gardens to chat about his designs and present his Murano and Siviglia Sapphire collections. These collections are in step with Bicego's signature aesthetic. With 12 years of design experience under his belt, Bicego has perfected a classic style, one that can only be described as everyday luxury.
"I blend old world Italian craftsmanship with tradition, passion and imagination in my collections," says Bicego. "My pieces are meant to be worn every day, not stored away in a jewelry box waiting for an occasion."
The Siviglia Sapphire series is one of a kind, yet will feel right at home in any personal collection. Every piece was handmade by artisans and features gold siviglia beans and brilliant sapphires. Pair a colorful earring, necklace or bracelet with a more subdued ensemble and you'll have a chic, timeless look.
The Murano collection has deep roots in Bicego's home country. Named for and inspired by the glassmaking village of Murano (located off the shores of Venice), pieces in the Murano series pay homage to the artisanship, architecture and vibrant colors of the small island. Semi-precious stones, including amethyst and citrine, are set in 18-karat gold. Bicego describes the fusion of gold and stone as "evocative of the Venetian buildings, exuding character, charm and individuality while staying true to their Italian heritage." Ranging in cost from $1,500 up to $15,000, the Murano and Siviglia Sapphire collections are priced for many pocketbooks.
In addition to telling his own story, Bicego uses his jewelry to connect with his customers. "When I am designing, I have in mind a dynamic, curious woman," he says. His favorite part of the design process is when he's able to connect with his patrons on the selling floor. This marriage of Italian craftsmanship and sensitivity to his customer base is what sets Bicego apart from the rest.
Normally, Bicego's art does all the talking. Tomorrow, however, you can meet the man behind the jewelry. Pick his brain while you pick out a piece that will remain a favorite for years to come.
Marco Bicego will be at the Palm Beach Gardens Saks Fifth Avenue tomorrow, Tuesday November 13, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. To learn more about Bicego, visit his website at marcobicego.com.


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Bruce Clay, Inc.'s search engine optimization tutorial is a step-by-step SEO guide that will teach you how to optimize a website for search, complete with free SEO tools! Are you a website owner concerned that your site doesn't show up in Google? Or are you planning a website and want to make it search-friendly from the ground up? Whatever your situation, this tutorial will teach you all the SEO basics and important SEO tips to help you optimize your web pages to be found in search engines.
What's in This SEO Tutorial?
This SEO how-to guide follows the proven, topically organized, keyword methodology that Bruce Clay has taught thousands of students worldwide in our renowned SEO training courses. You can be hands-on while you learn, optimizing your website as you go! We've provided free SEO tools and many bonus videos to help you every step of the way.
To make sure your education is well-grounded and effective, these pages cover a wide range of Internet marketing-related subjects. Here you'll learn SEO tips for:
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Includes: Keyword Suggestion tool
- 2: Competitive Research – Who's Your SEO Competition?
Includes: Top-Ranked Websites by Keyword tool
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Search engine optimization (SEO) is the science/art of increasing traffic to a website by helping it rank higher in organic (non-paid) search results. SEO tips and strategies that are trustworthy aim to improve both internal and external factors that influence a website's ranking (aka "on page" and "off page" elements) for SEO. Optimization involves some web programming expertise combined with business, writing, marketing, branding and even competitive puzzle solving skills. If you do all of this right (or at least the best among your competitors), you can achieve higher search engine rankings in the organic sections of search engine results pages. And you can have a website capable of maintaining your revenue goals.
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Search engines want to show the "best" results possible — the most relevant, most expert and highest quality web pages that will satisfy the searcher. To do this, the engines look at more than 200 factors to determine a site's relevance to a search request. Some of these factors are woven into the fabric of the website ("on-page" factors). Others are trust signals based on links from reputable sites and (in some cases) social media engagement. No single web page, even with the best search engine optimization in the world, can be perfect in all 200+ ranking factors. Furthermore, no one knows precisely what the factors include or how they are weighted to determine the search results for a given keyword or query. So what's an SEO to do? This SEO tutorial teaches you a "beat the leader" approach to search engine ranking. To see what Google or Bing thinks is best for any specific attribute, you can look at the sites they are currently rewarding — the top-ranked results. Once you know what structural and content choices worked for the "leaders," you can do even better by making your pages the "least imperfect"!
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iHerb Customer Reviews
Savings of: $6.29 (23% off)
Posted by Reviewer1741382 on Oct 17, 2007
so far, i am very pleased with this product.
putting Salba to the test
Posted by Reviewer2004080 on Oct 20, 2007
I am 74 years old and have had bladder, prostste,and skin cancer. Since radiation and everything else I have no energy. I, at this time, have only been taking it for a week, and do not feel any different.
great product
Posted by Reviewer2134166 on Oct 21, 2007
i just purchased this product and have been using it for close to a week, it seems very beneficial to my health. My only complaint is that it puts a dent in my bank account for such a small amount :(
Posted by Reviewer2355520 on Apr 29, 2008
Tasty. Enhances salads and all foods. More energy!!!
Good, not great
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I had high expectations for this based on other reviews. I did not notice much difference, though I still see the benefit in taking fiber.
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I would recommend this product, it is very good. the service was excellent. Thank you.
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Very happy with Salba and finding all sorts of ways to add it to our foods. Works great with salads, smoothies, hot oatmeal without grinding the seeds. Great find, thanks.
Great Product
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Except you need a grinder.
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Very good product,especially for regularity. Deloris Lawson/South Carolina
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My husbnd is very pleased with the product. He uses it to help him maintain a regular bowl movement. He takes less than the recommended dose for this purpose.


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A 'Cheaper' iPhone: Absolutely Awful News for Apple
I don't know what to say. It's so absurd I'm not certain if I should laugh or cry.
Back in the day -- you know, last year, the year before -- Apple (AAPL) captured our attention in the time just before, during and/or after CES. Everybody waited to hear what Apple would do next. While that mood still exists, it's not quite the same.
So, Apple revolutionizes multiple spaces with iPod, iPhone and iPad. The lowest-end Mac proceeds to outclass upper-echelon PCs. Now, with true innovation standing slightly still at Apple, other companies have the opportunity to pounce. What do they do? Absolutely nothing. That's awful news.
The cats at CES don't have a damn thing. All Google (GOOG) wants to do is start a price war that Apple -- hopefully -- wants no part of. Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer is busy being absolutely delusional .
Meantime, Amazon.com (AMZN) sits cross-legged in the corner, feigning competition with Apple , just as it should.
That's all good for Apple, if only it was routinely pioneering as it has in the past.
We have no idea what's going on with the company's living room plans. Worse yet, we don't really know if Tim Cook has any idea how to move forward with Apple TV .
And then there are the rumors -- we're reportedly going to see a new iPhone sooner rather than later, but in different colors and sizes. And then there's Tuesday's WSJ report that Apple will produce a "cheaper" (though some say "less expensive") iPhone at some point in 2013.
Freak out a little. It's OK. Because, ultimately -- if the details of the rumor are true -- this is absolutely awful news for Apple. However, consider two important points:
1. The details of the rumor might not be true. We have been through this before with iPad mini. Most people expected it to cost less than it does. Some even predicted it would be of lower quality than a traditional iPad.
Not so. As some hack predicted on CNBC (!), it's a high-quality, premium-priced device and it's selling well. Other than screen size and display quality, there's no telling one iPad from the other. Big win for Apple.
2. If the rumor plays out as the WSJ projects, this is not good long-term news, but that doesn't matter in the near term.
Apple will sell millions of units. It will chew up and spit out the low-end smartphone category and increase market share in a major way. As such, Apple's six-to-24-month outlook looks pretty good as long as the competition stays CES, Google and Microsoft weak.


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Potvin challenged
To the Journal editor:
One more representative of the City of Marquette unabashedly goes on record indicating a complete disregard for the interests of citizens of the Charter Township of Marquette with his recommended truck route avoiding the city.
This former member of the Marquette City Commission and resident of Marquette, Don Potvin, is urging his former colleagues to ban all heavy trucking from Marquette City streets unless their cargo starts or ends in the city.
Mr. Potvin proposes that all heavy logging, sand and gravel trucks and future mine truck traffic would be best routed west from Big Bay Road 550 connecting to Forestville Road (HD) north of the bridge over the Dead River, then south on Forestville Road connecting to Wright Street (County Road 492), (a very challenging truck turn) then south on Wright Street to U.S. 41.
The Potvin proposal is presented in the interest of defending the peace, quiet and safety of Marquette city residents, but without any consideration of the imposition his proposal would have on the Charter Township of Marquette citizens or its intended future planned use of Forestville Road.
Forestville Road is the townships gateway to extensive future residential development that would be adversely impacted if used as a heavy truck route.
John Markes


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As we wrap up the course, let's weave together some of the threads we've explored over the last few months.
- We have looked at theories of new media, social media, Web 2.0, and media convergence, and examined a series of definitions of "media ecology." These included the medium theory of Marshall McLuhan and others; the mental environmentalism of Adbusters; the cultural environmentalism of James Boyle and Lawrence Lessig, with their ideas of a mental or informational commons; the global network society theories of Deleuze ("society of control"), Galloway and Thacker (whose article we didn't talk much about), and others; the "greening of media" assessments and proposals of Toby Miller and Richard Maxwell; and (briefly, this past week) the "three ecologies" of Felix Guattari.
- We've looked at the relationship between contemporary media and the public sphere; distinguished between Continue reading


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European cost-effectiveness analysis of cervical screening strategies for women not vaccinated for HPV: in many scenarios primary HPV screening is preferable to primary cytology screening in women aged over 30 years
- 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cape Town, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
- 2Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Correspondence to
Professor Lynette Denny
, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cape Town, H45, Old Main Building, Groote Schuur Hospital, Observatory 7925, South Africa; lynette.denny{at}uct.ac.za
Commentary on: de Kok IM, van Rosmalen J, Dillner J, et al. Primary screening for human papillomavirus compared with cytology screening for cervical cancer in European settings: cost effectiveness analysis based on a Dutch microsimulation model. BMJ 2012;344:e670.
Implications for practice and research
In the absence of vaccination, primary screening using human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing for cervical cancer prevention is potentially cost-effective.
Costs associated with HPV testing must be kept low, particularly when background prevalence of HPV in the population is high.
Screening primarily with cytology was preferred when cytology costs were low, despite lower sensitivity and specificity.
For the same number of quality-adjusted life year's (QALY) gained, fewer lifetime HPV tests were required as a primary screening test (five vs eight for cytology); however, cytology remained the cheaper option.
There is 'no one size fits all' situation and each country should assess several factors when deciding on cervical cancer screening, including laboratory infrastructure and accessibility to effective treatment.
Establishing country-specific estimates for factors, including background HPV prevalence, …


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jjgmyers wrote:DiStefano's at the corner of Highland and Bishop. There aint even a close 2nd to this place. Best "real" italian pizza out there.
Fuck the chains. All garbage. Romeos might be the most overrated. Thought their sauce was garbage.
Highland and Bishop? Isn't that "Crostata's"? In any case, yeah, that stuff is right up there with the best.


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The Moulin is, at heart, a place 'to be', an environment to let go for some time of the outer focused busy-ness of our everyday lives, and turn our attention gently and inquiringly inwards, to explore heart, body, mind and life.
Teachings of awakening, practices of awakening, and a community of awakening are offered, grounded in the Buddhist tradition of Insight Meditation, (also known as Mindfulness Meditation, or Vipassana).
Resident teacher Martin Aylward provides the principal guidance and support for meditation practice and inner inquiry, along with a rich variety of deeply skilled visiting teachers from various spiritual backgrounds. The exquisitely beautiful, landscaped grounds of The Moulin offer shady riverbanks and bamboo groves and delicious organic vegetarian meals and an environment of deep kindness and care support your practice.
Moulin de Chaves is dedicated to fostering a welcoming and open-hearted refuge for all people to explore life-transforming practices and teachings. We are committed to cultivating an awareness and appreciation of the value of diversity and to acknowledging the need to recognise and dissolve barriers that separate us from each other. We open our doors and hearts to all social identities including all races, classes, sexual orientations, gender identities, ages, abilities, cultures and ethnicities. We look forward to meeting you here. Read further for more information about retreats, accommodation, costs etc..
also go to our facebook page for regular updates of life here
(Moulin de Chaves is the original name of the water mill built here in the mid-19th Century.)


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Victorian Style bouffant with Large curls
This look is ready for the red carpet, wedding or prom. This woman has really think hair as it is long and curly. Her hair is styled into a long, curly ponytail at back. On top, the hair is styled into big curls that give this style a classy and chic appearance.This haircut is long.The hair colouring is golden blonde.
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