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Book Review from page 6 rejected and he was advised by a friendly editor to seek at Harvard. The letter is exposed by the censor and both
experience to enhance his writing. He moves to New York Cummings and Brown are subjected to swift and harsh
and Arabs living (hopefully) peacefully together. This is to pursue his interest in the burgeoning scene of modern internment for several months in two prisons. His father
perhaps the symbolic road map behind the novel. Both Zvi art, music and literature. writes a bitter letter to President Wilson Woodrow arguing
and the Palestinian family occupying the obstructionist hill And then the Great War of 1916 arrived in Europe. for his son’s release since he, after all, had volunteered to
on the crater are bound by their infirmities and mirrored On the advice of his father and in search of adventure, serve. In a memorable poem, written several years after
loyalties, Zvi by his dementia and his wife’s illness and he chooses to enlist in the French ambulance corps as the war, Estlin lingers on the three events that brought
the Palestinian family who have suffered loss of mother preferable to awaiting the draft into the American army. him to fulfill patriotic obligations, the savagery of war,
and wife; their common humanity is reinforced by Luria’s Shipping to France and awaiting his assignment at the and love.
fantastical mirage that Palestinian Arabs are descendants front, he indulges in all the pleasures that an American I would die etcetera/ bravely of course my father used
of Jews who had occupied these lands and been driven out, in Paris can imagine. Along with his companion William to become hoarse talking about how it was
a view, Zvi avers, embraced by the first Prime Minister Slater Brown, he relishes the avant-garde scene, views a privilege and if only he/ could, meanwhile my
David Ben Gurion as well as the second president Yitzchak the work of modernist painters like Picasso, purchases self etectera lay quietly/ in the deep mud et/ cetera
Ben Zvi. It suggests a bond of brotherhood perhaps works of Cezanne, attends the concerts of Eric Sati and (dreaming/ et/ cetera, of/ Your smile/ eyes knees and
more relevant than the so-called political or nationalistic Debussy, and falls in love with the coquette Marie Louise of your Etcera)
ideologies that separate Jews and Arabs. Lallemand, in Professor Alison’s view, a sex worker who His life would be reflected in his eccentric, disruptive
J. Alison Rosenblatt, a Professor of Classics at steers him into the discovery of desire and fulfillment. poetry, but also in his unconventional and rebellious
Oxford University and an e.e. cummings’ scholar, has Then the innocent abroad is sent to the front along with life style, the genius of his art and writing nevertheless
constructed a fascinating study drawing on a myriad of Brown. depicting, in Professor Rosenblitt’s assessment, the
sources from diaries and letters and creative work of At the front, he is confronted with the brutality of beauty of living. One is led to recall Virginia Woolf’s
a brilliant life interrupted and sabotaged by the Great war up close and personal. Driving an ambulance and masterful depiction of the post traumatic stress disorder
War. E.E. Cummings was born to pure bred Protestant rescuing soldiers, he is traumatized by shells, tank fire, of a similar, returning veteran, Septimus Warren Smith,
Boston stock, given the best opportunities for growth sights of dead and dying. In Allison’s telling, his friend the anti-hero of her classic novel Mrs. Dalloway.
and professional development, attending the Cambridge writes a disparaging letter about the conditions, the war,
Latin School, writing poetry at age 3, publishing at 12, and muses about sympathy toward the Germans and Dr. Ronald J. Meyers is retired, an Emeritus Professor
and attending Harvard University with the notion of the desire for pacifism, ideas that certainly would be of English, who resides in La Paz. rmeyers@esu.edu. 
pursuing a career as a poet and painter. Editor-in-chief consistent with someone trained to be a critical thinker
of the undergraduate Harvard literary magazine Monthly,
class Valedictorian; upon graduation, his poetry was

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