Category Archives: Writing

Sterling Plumpp: Survival Blues

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Richard Guzman

Born in rural Mississippi in 1940, Sterling Plumpp has for thirty years taught at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and produced a body of poetry giving him considerable claim to be one of the country’s most distinguished blues-jazz poets. Somber … Continue reading →

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Against Pure Purity – Part 2

Posted on September 8, 2013 by Richard Guzman

This is Part 2 of an essay I gave as a talk at a philosophy & religion conference in Kolkata, India, August 2002.  I sought to apply new ideas about Indian novelist Raja Rao to multicultural and political issues then … Continue reading →

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Against Pure Purity – Part 1

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Richard Guzman

I gave a version of this essay as a talk at a philosophy & religion conference in Kolkata, India, August 2002.  Re-reading some literary criticism I had published 20 years earlier in the Virginia Quarterly, I sought to apply new ideas about Indian novelist Raja Rao … Continue reading →

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