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Wind
If God has any voice it is the wind. Women hate this seeking of a vacuum, it gets their edges up, they cannot sleep, they think of Boreas...
Commonweal, 05/08/09 by John Updike · More from publication -
My Mother at Her Desk
My mother knew non-publication's shame, obscurity's abyss, where blind hands flog typewriter keys in hopes of raising up the magic combination...
American Poetry Review, The, 11/01/08 by Updike, John · More from publication -
Factor, Max: Max Factor: The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World.(Brief article)(Book review)
Factor, Max Max Factor. The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World. Fred E. Basten. New York: Arcade, 2008. 172 pp. $24.95. "This biography...
Biography, 09/22/08 by Updike, John · More from publication -
Madurai
From our terrace at the Taj Garden Retreat, the city below belies its snarl of commerceâ men pushing postcards on the teeming street,...
Atlantic, The, 07/01/07 by John Updike · More from publication -
Response
Let me extend my thanks to you, Professor Webb, for your most generous words, and to all of you of the Conference instrumental for giving me this...
Christianity and Literature, 03/22/07 by John Updike · More from publication -
Kinderscenen.(Short story)
Windows frame pictures of the world outside. A window along the side porch shows the painted porch boards and the curved backs of the wicker...
Harper's Magazine, 12/01/06 by Updike, John · More from publication -
Half Moon, Small Cloud
Caught out in daylight, a rabbitâs transparent pallor, the moon is paired with a cloud of equal weight: the heavenly congruence startles. For...
Atlantic, The, 10/01/06 by John Updike · More from publication -
Dry Spell
In Arizona's drought, even cacti die; the prickly pears are pancake-flat with no more rain to plump them up, and blanch to lavender instead of...
American Poetry Review, The, 09/01/06 by Updike, John · More from publication -
Twinkletape.(Poem)
Twinkletape Woods, as we know, can scarcely be seen: a gray fog of twigs. The same with cities and stars. What glints and...
American Scholar, 06/22/05 by Updike, John · More from publication -
Angel bones.(Poem)
Angel Bones Next to the statue-laden cathedral of Rheims, the bishop's palace has become a museum containing many stones cast down by...
American Scholar, 06/22/05 by Updike, John · More from publication
