The first, focused on literary criticism, opens with the essay "Black Body," in which a visit to the Swiss village where James Baldwin wrote parts of "Go Tell It Oon the Mountain" prompts Cole to reflect on his identity as a black man — a recurring theme throughout the collection.
They read like short-story collections with recurring characters, the Toploftys, the Eminents, the Richan Vulgars, the Gildings and the Kindharts.
The Winterthur book will serve buyers as a kind of auction catalog supplement, showing how designs and glazes recur in the collection, now scattered.
Poems about nature, the graceful swoop of birds in flight and the delightful "quiet of an English wood" recur throughout the collection.
These early stories set up the tropes that recur throughout the collection – youth, sex, violence, death, disappointment and adult bewilderment – and the symbols we come to know them by: beating hearts, closed doors, ladders, human shit and perfect beauty.
One of two pieces titled "Soul Song" (titles recur throughout the collection) is a particularly affecting love poem that points longingly towards – though it finally rejects – the idea of a complete spiritual union between two people.
It illustrates one of the recurring problems of theme-based collection shows.
I never set a destination, but enjoyed the process of perfecting poems like "the Way" I practice in Aikido, until a recurring theme of my accumulating collection became more discernible.
This recurring blog series features a collection of recent news stories about threats to public health, our democracy and the planet which are ignored or underreported by the handful of corporate mainstream media conglomerates, TV pundits, and radio shock jocks who've turned the "news" into little more than an entertainment and product placement opportunity and let down the American public.
A sense of whimsy and art are recurring motifs in the two designers' collections.
