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Iris DeMent<\/p><\/div>\n

When Anthony Heilbut isn\u2019t producing\u00a0beautiful gospel<\/a>, he tends to be writing\u2014<\/strong>slowly\u2014<\/strong>either about German modernism or else about the music and musicians he loves. The Fan Who Knew Too Much<\/em><\/a> is the book Heilbut’s gospel fans have been waiting for since The Gospel Sound<\/em><\/a> (1972). In this connection, I can\u2019t resist quoting our Southern editor right off the back cover: \u201cNothing new in the last year gave me as much pure reading pleasure as pages of this book. Heilbut ranges over the culture like a madman, but with a fierce sanity in his eye, debunking myths and erecting new ones. I finished\u00a0The Fan Who Knew Too Much<\/em> wondering how, without it, I\u2019d ever thought I understood a thing about America in the twentieth century. Let me ask: Are you familiar with the history of gays in gospel? Or with the early, radio roots of soap operas? Then you too are similarly benighted. Get with this.\u201d Amen. \u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A friend sent me Sara Teasdale\u2019s \u201cThere will come soft rains\u201d\u2014a wee poem of six rhyming couplets that is sprightly and joyous (and makes me think of this<\/a> Joe Brainard collage), until the fourth stanza, when Teasdale subtly introduces a supreme darkness.<\/p>\n

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There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;<\/p>\n

And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;<\/p>\n

Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire.<\/p>\n

And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.<\/p>\n

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly.<\/p>\n

And Spring herself when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She prefigures the advent of nuclear war by twenty-five years, and the poem exists a perfect dollop of science fiction. Ray Bradbury thought so, too. He borrowed the first line in 1950 for the title of a short story, a tale that teases out the hint of ruin and death in the poem but manages to preserve its quiet, beautiful horror. \u2014Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you ever feel that you have a difficult job, take a look at this excerpt from Working Man’s Death <\/em><\/a>about a Nigerian meat market, and you might just reconsider your grievances. Michael Glawogger\u2019s 2005 documentary offers a stunning and poignant portrait of hard manual labor in the modern era. Most people in the world still earn their living by physical exertion; we just don\u2019t see them or hear about them very much. Sitting at a desk in an office, it\u2019s easy to forget that in so many jobs, the body itself is the machine. Here\u2019s an opportunity to be reminded. \u2014Arthur Holland Michel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Few of the great New York poets\u2014for me, this means Whitman, Crane, O\u2019Hara, and Seidel\u2014were natives of the city. This isn\u2019t surprising; it’s the immigrants who bring new eyes to old places. Bronx-born Rowan Ricardo Phillips is an exception. His first book of poems, The Ground<\/em><\/a>, isn\u2019t only about New York\u2014it\u2019s also about myth and translation and how to be a troubadour in the twenty-first century\u2014but it has made me look at the city with renewed wonder and excitement:<\/p>\n

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Those kids on a New Deal rooftop
Staring at the wonders of Moses,
Who with a wave split the Bronx asunder<\/p>\n

And dropped the Cross Bronx
Down in his wake,
May they know this map of the world<\/p>\n

As only a map of the world.
One of many that will lead them
To and from their doors.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2014Robyn Creswell<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is it about contemporary country music that makes almost all self-respecting music lovers north of the Mason-Dixon Line squirm with discomfort? With the exception of Johnny Cash, perhaps, country remains for many the untouched genre, and it\u2019s a shame indeed, for it seems to me that one can find in the \u201cwhite man\u2019s blues\u201d\u2014when it\u2019s done right\u2014a certain subtle yet unabashed yearning, an unassuming boldness that lifts the spirit and grips the heart. Before you roll your eyes, give Iris Dement\u2019s 1993 album Infamous Angel<\/a> <\/em>an open-minded listen. The unpolished, back-country twang that is her charm is perhaps not for everybody, but it gives way to a gorgeous soaring that\u2019ll stick with you (it\u2019s one of those \u201cwhen you get it, you really get it\u201d type of situations). With titles like \u201cHotter Than Mojave In My Heart\u201d and lines like \u201c\u201dHe was the tender and I ordered a beer \/ It\u2019s been forty years and I\u2019m still sitting here,\u201d Dement\u2019s songs have nothing if not character, but it\u2019s the jaunty and flawless \u201cLet the Mystery Be,\u201d a song about humility in the face of the unknown, that I love the most. Hokey? Not a chance. \u2014Anna Hadfield
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