Perspectives by Incongruity

I: Changing Times; The Woman in the Sunlight; The Great Predicament Facing Obama; Everything Is Permitted; Grassroots Nuances; Icons and Assassins; Obama in Tucson; My Father’s War; On Present-Mindedness in the Writing of History; Obama Goes Electric; Long and Whining Road; Unmasked & Magnanimous; Double Trouble; Hipsters ‘R Us; From a Notebook; II: First Draft of History IV; The Old Man and the Tsunami; Looking Backward; Whither Iraq (Redux)?; Of Venom and Hope; Libya On My Mind; A Dirty Word; III: The Vanishing American; Workingman’s Blues; Emergency Rooms & Cutting Rooms: What’s Wrong with The Fighter; America by Birth, Rockaway by the Grace of God; It Is Time the Stone Made an Effort to Flower; Norton’s Big Check; Mother Lion; Cosa de Gringos; The Efficient Romance; Hooking Up; Far from Fantasy; Estrellita’s Blackhand Side; Express Yourself; Citizen Jay-Z; A Citizen in Wisconsin; IV: Lives of Learning; Fish and Chips; Mathew Arnold, HMI; A Life of Learning; Charles Olson & Sun Ra; Sphere of Influence; How I Got My EMAIL Name; Clearing the Desk; Beatitudes; Kitten to a Kitten; Puff Peace; Burning Woman; Call It Music; Three Goodbyes; Top Ten; The Yearbook; Savoring the Roots of New York Mambo; A Community-Centered Memory; V: Trips; Passage to Kashmir; Wild Fire in the ’Burbs; Can I Get a Witness?; Mud on the Tracks; Ballad of the Last Hippie Christmas; Coasting; Distance Learning; Purple Power and the Glory; Believers; In Her Time; Massacre of the Innocents; The Shadow Knows; Contributors’ Notes