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Presented at the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School. False River —For Olivia Pass, and for Patric It’s wide, impressive, but it’s false—really an oxbow lake, formed when the Mississippi, on its own, changed its course, three hundred years ago or so, chopping off a loop, leaving to the west a “Pointe Coupée”— an “island” and a flowing C. Farther north…
Catharine Savage BrosmanAugust 7, 2017
The Wehrmacht coveted the wealth of France, its grain, vines, ports, its past—and Paris most of all. They planned, and took their shining chance. Admiring it, they didn’t want its ghost, or ruins! They too were Franks. “Leben wie Gott in Frankreich” was their watchword. Notre-Dame, the Eiffel Tower, Concorde, the Louvre besot them: vital presence, history, art. The…
Catharine Savage BrosmanDecember 22, 2015
A modest query falls out of the fog: “Might you be interested in this small book, which would appear to fit your catalogue— new figures, new research? Please take a look.” The answer is politely couched, and smooth; they cannot risk offense that might be quoted. The momentary business is to soothe, while the assessment’s “pending, as was noted.”…
Catharine Savage BrosmanOctober 6, 2015
A poetess, invited to submit her verse—a friendly offer— answered back: “Your editorial policies don’t fit my own advanced ideas; I’d be a hack if I were to contribute. Life is short, and poems few; I want them to do good, and advertise my causes.” That retort astonished me. So poems, briefly, should be activist endeavors, meant to…
Catharine Savage BrosmanAugust 18, 2015
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