7 Fun and Fascinating Pieces of Back Slang
Back slang is kind of like a lexical puzzle that everyone from costermongers and criminals of the Victorian era to today’s Wordle fans can appreciate.
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Back slang is kind of like a lexical puzzle that everyone from costermongers and criminals of the Victorian era to today’s Wordle fans can appreciate.
Stephen Fredman graduated from Point Loma High School in a large class of 900 students in 1966. I was there - that was my class too. Like many alums, Stephen left this "waspish, uncool Navy town" and he ended up teaching modern American poetry and poetics at the University of Notre Dame for 37 years.…
New Directions covers from the mid-twentieth century are easy to spot but difficult to describe, often using pictures to describe words rather than the other way around.
IMENTIONED in the first of these essays, a fortnight ago, the occasion at which my wife Rae and I listened to Liz reading these poems. It was a