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Poetry Friday: Heinrich Heine

Mamacita says:  Heinrich Heine was the center of various controversies almost all of his adult life.  Born a Jew, he later converted to Catholicism: not for the right reasons, but for convenience’s sake. He has been quoted as such: “. . . (conversion) was ‘the ticket of admission into European culture.’”. and “As [...]

Poetry Friday: Stephen Crane

Mamacita says:  Many people do not know that Stephen Crane, author of  The Red Badge of Courage and The Open Boat – among many other works – was also a poet.
Crane referred to his poems as “lines,” but I call them poems, and I like ‘em!  Most of them are short, but hardly sweet.
In The [...]