Author: Kaye Gibbons

Cites

• Allen Tate (1)
  • IN: On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon (1998) Ficiton, American
    EPIGRAPH: Cursing only the leaves crying Like an old man in a storm You hear the shout, the crazy hemlocks point With troubled fingers to the silece which Smothers you, A mummy, in time
    FROM: Ode to the Confederate Dead, (1928), Poem, US
• Robert Lowell (1)
  • IN: On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon (1998) Ficiton, American
    EPIGRAPH: Shaw's father wanted no monument except the ditch where his son's body was thrown and lost with his "niggers" The ditch is nearer, There are no statues for the last war here; on Boylston Street, a commercial photograph shows Hiroshima boiling Over a Mosler Safe, the "Rock of Ages" that survived the blast, Space is nearer. When I crouch to my television set, the drained faces of negro school-children rise like balloons
    FROM: For the Union Dead, (1964), Poem, US
• Ralph Emerson Waldo (1)
  • IN: Ellen Foster (1987) Fiction, novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: Cast the bantling on the rocks Suckle him with the she-wolf's teat, Wintered with the hawk and fox Power and speed be hands and feet.
    FROM: Self-Reliance, (1841), Essay, US
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1)
  • IN: Charms for the Easy Life (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Stupidity in a Woman is unfeminine
    FROM: Human, All too Human, (1878), Book, Germany
• Conrad Aiken (1)
  • IN: Sights Unseen (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For there are dark streams in this dark world, lady, Gulf streams and Arctic currents of the soul
    FROM: Preludes for Memnon, (1931), Poem, US