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The Wonder Of Tony Fitzpatrick

[The Cunning Tower by Wilfrid: July 14, 2008]

With City of Monsters, City of Ghosts, published this summer, Chicago poet-artist Tony Fitzpatrick completes his trilogy of "old sorrow, written in tears of blood", overlaid with fond remembrance and honor for the dead:  The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City.

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Fourth Of July: Ten Years Ago

[Pink Pig Time Machine by Wilfrid: July 14, 2008]

Independence Day is not the biggest holiday in the calendar of the average Englishman.  Still, this would be my first July 4th as a resident of New York, and I have an open mind when it comes to public holidays, whatever their derivation.