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Poetic Prescriptions, Banished Words
By
Sadie Stein
October 4, 2012
On the Shelf
Get a prescription form from the
Poetry Pharmacy
.
A poem
written by Sylvia Plath as a college student has surfaced.
This year’s
“List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse, and General Uselessness.”
Orson Welles and Hemingway
had a relationship. It was “very strange.”
Mark Twain: “Apparently, the Concord library has condemned Huck as ‘trash and only suitable for the slums.’ This will sell us another twenty-five thousand copies for sure!”
Writers respond to having books banned.
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