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Still Learning: Covid Through The Eyes Of A Medical Student, Alexis Strahan Dec 2020

Still Learning: Covid Through The Eyes Of A Medical Student, Alexis Strahan

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

As a first-year medical student when the COVID-19 pandemic found a foothold, I felt an overwhelming amount of emotions that accompanied the pandemic’s spread. Fear, although a reasonable choice, was not the first emotion that I experienced. In fact, it was a general feeling of paralysis. I had not six months prior taken an oath to commit my career and life to the service of the public’s health care needs, yet I could provide little more than the textbook knowledge of biochemistry or genetics from my first semester of learning. My hands felt unarmed and unskilled for the fight. What …


Notes On Contributors, Molly Lynde-Recchia Dec 2020

Notes On Contributors, Molly Lynde-Recchia

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What Are You, Really?/Afar, Gazing At The Holy Mountain By Du Fu, Michael Zhai Dec 2020

What Are You, Really?/Afar, Gazing At The Holy Mountain By Du Fu, Michael Zhai

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A translation and commentary of Du Fu's poem "Afar, Gazing on the Holy Mountain," with a worksheet for readers to produce their own translations of the poem.


On Tasso In Prison By Charles Baudelaire, Sharon Fish Mooney Dec 2020

On Tasso In Prison By Charles Baudelaire, Sharon Fish Mooney

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Translation of and commentary on Baudelaire's "On Tasso in Prison," which is an ekphrastic poem after Delacroix's painting of the same name.


Four Poems By Toshiko Hirata, Eric Hyett, Spencer Thurlow Dec 2020

Four Poems By Toshiko Hirata, Eric Hyett, Spencer Thurlow

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Translations of "Is It February?" "Is It March?" "Is It November Again?" and "Is It December Again?"


Lullaby By Rainer Maria Rilke And Amen By Georg Trakl, Wally Swist Dec 2020

Lullaby By Rainer Maria Rilke And Amen By Georg Trakl, Wally Swist

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Drops From Black Candles By Abdallah Zrika, Mike Baynham Dec 2020

Drops From Black Candles By Abdallah Zrika, Mike Baynham

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English translation of Abdallah Zrika's "Drops from black candles" accompanied by an essay on the translation process which includes consideration of Laâbi's French translation of the same poem.


While Dreaming, While Writing (Excerpt) By Max Alhau, Patrick Williamson Dec 2020

While Dreaming, While Writing (Excerpt) By Max Alhau, Patrick Williamson

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A free rendering of Max Alhau's "While dreaming, while writing," with commentary. The original source text is included.


Corona By Paul Celan, David Capps Dec 2020

Corona By Paul Celan, David Capps

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Five Poems By Michael Krüger, Louise Stoehr Dec 2020

Five Poems By Michael Krüger, Louise Stoehr

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Two Poems By Charles Baudelaire, Arnold Johnston Dec 2020

Two Poems By Charles Baudelaire, Arnold Johnston

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Arnold Johnston's translations of Baudelaire's "The Lovely Ship" and "Invitation to the Voyage."


Blue Crystal By Martha Hofmann, Paul J. Shlichta Dec 2020

Blue Crystal By Martha Hofmann, Paul J. Shlichta

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A translation of a German poem by Martha Hofmann into English verse. The commentary includes a brief biography of Hofmann and a link to additional information.


Two Poems By Nohad Salameh, Susanna Lang Dec 2020

Two Poems By Nohad Salameh, Susanna Lang

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Susanna Lang's translations of Nohad Salameh's "I Greet You, My Twin" and "Dance of the One/the Moon."


Four Sonnets By Feng Zhi, Emily Goedde Dec 2020

Four Sonnets By Feng Zhi, Emily Goedde

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Translation of Feng Zhi's Sonnets 6, 12, 16, and 18 by Emily Goedde.


Six Poems By Safiye Can, Marilya V. Reese Dec 2020

Six Poems By Safiye Can, Marilya V. Reese

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Translations into English of six pieces of poetry by Safiye Can, Circassian-German poet from Offenbach.

P.E.N member Safiye Can pronounced like John), award-winning and best-selling Circassian poet from Offenbach, is a German citizen. Can studied philosophy, psychoanalysis and law at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main and is the recent recipient of two prestigious literary prizes (Else Lasker-Schüler Poetry prize and Alfred-Müller-Felsenburg Prize for Civil Courage in Literature). Can’s work examining the place of the individual in society reframes concepts of home and belonging. Safiye Can was featured at the 20th annual, week-long Leselenz, Germany’s largest non-urban literary …


Persistence Of Memory After A Poem By Bashō, John Savoie Dec 2020

Persistence Of Memory After A Poem By Bashō, John Savoie

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This piece merges a classic haiku of Bashō with a contemporary English poem, first as its own new creative piece, then contemplated further in the commentary.


Four Poems By Rainer Maria Rilke, Susan Mclean Dec 2020

Four Poems By Rainer Maria Rilke, Susan Mclean

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Translations of four German poems from New Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926): "The Blind Man," "The Donor," "The Arrival," and "Lady on a Balcony."


From The Villa By Lucretius, James E. Fowler Dec 2020

From The Villa By Lucretius, James E. Fowler

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"From the Villa" is an epistolary poem in hexameters whose argument is loosely based on the Lucretius's De Rerum Natura. It is addressed to Lucretius's putative dedicatee/patron Gaius Memmius, a contemporary politician and poet.


My Dear Double By Abdellatif Laâbi, Guillemette C. Johnston, Allan Johnston Dec 2020

My Dear Double By Abdellatif Laâbi, Guillemette C. Johnston, Allan Johnston

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This translation of Abdellatif Laabi's poem "My Dear Double" is accompanied by an essay on the theme of the double in literature.


The Zhongyuan Festival At West Lake By Zhang Dai And Two Poems By Tan Yuanchun, Andrew Gudgel Dec 2020

The Zhongyuan Festival At West Lake By Zhang Dai And Two Poems By Tan Yuanchun, Andrew Gudgel

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A translation of an excerpt from the late Ming Dynasty essayist Zhang Dai's "The Zhongyuan Festival at West Lake" and two poems by the Ming Dynasty poet and writer Tan Yuanchun.


Foreword, Molly Lynde-Recchia Dec 2020

Foreword, Molly Lynde-Recchia

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Transference Vol. 8, Fall 2020, Molly Lynde-Recchia Dec 2020

Transference Vol. 8, Fall 2020, Molly Lynde-Recchia

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Diamond Line - Fall 2020, Autumn Blaylock, Emily Corn, Heather Drouse, Claire Hutchinson, Elise Lusk, Alexis Jamilee Carter, Lauren Dial, Toby James Haymore, Caroline Jennings, Heidi Kirk, Brittaney Mann, Anna Karen Olivo, Hadley West, Tabitha Novotny, Lexie Price Dec 2020

Diamond Line - Fall 2020, Autumn Blaylock, Emily Corn, Heather Drouse, Claire Hutchinson, Elise Lusk, Alexis Jamilee Carter, Lauren Dial, Toby James Haymore, Caroline Jennings, Heidi Kirk, Brittaney Mann, Anna Karen Olivo, Hadley West, Tabitha Novotny, Lexie Price

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

In following up the premier issue of The Diamond Line, the fall 2020 editorial staff had big shoes to fill. We took on the challenge of creating something that would uphold the framework of Issue 1 while simultaneously branching out from its margins.

Like the editors before us, we had a vision, but ours took a new form — bright, warm colors. Sunset colors. Moons. Playful lines. Isolation and introspection. A stroll through an art gallery. A coming-of-age story bound between two groovy orange bookends. While Issue 2 does not have an overarching theme, we chose the cover art, “Pandemic …


Disassembly: A Pantoum Written By Depaul Students On The Fight For Racial Equity Dec 2020

Disassembly: A Pantoum Written By Depaul Students On The Fight For Racial Equity

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Nine students in Chris Green's English class wrote a pantoum, "Disassembly," which advocates for the Black Lives Matter movement and chooses to celebrate difference by collaborative means. The pantoum was turned into a video and posted to YouTube.


On Resisting Rape Culture With Teachers-To-Be: A Research Poem, Amber Moore Dec 2020

On Resisting Rape Culture With Teachers-To-Be: A Research Poem, Amber Moore

Intersections: Critical Issues in Education

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The Fear That Left Me // It Was Your Fault, Jenna Murray Dec 2020

The Fear That Left Me // It Was Your Fault, Jenna Murray

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Whimper, Mira Jaeger Dec 2020

Whimper, Mira Jaeger

Gandy Dancer Archives

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June, Isabella Higgins Dec 2020

June, Isabella Higgins

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Dreams Under The Red Eye Of A Hotel Television // In A World Gone Shallow, Miranda Phillips Dec 2020

Dreams Under The Red Eye Of A Hotel Television // In A World Gone Shallow, Miranda Phillips

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Yellow Light, Abigail Cornelia Dec 2020

Yellow Light, Abigail Cornelia

Gandy Dancer Archives

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