Posts tagged with “George Lippard”

Of Weights and Visions

20 November 2008 | Philly Skyline

Sometime in the 1840s, and only in his twenties, and sporting a head of long hair and thick sideburns, and a velvet collar, the radical author George Lippard looked up at the silver sky and saw a Paris, glimmering and ghastly.

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Sounds of These Streets

22 July 2008

Later, as I do, I’ll walk, under the pear trees, around the construction fences, past the low windows, block after block. As I walk I find myself recounting, in my own head, in my own voice, the very rhythm of the street.

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The Question We’ll Have To Answer

2 August 2007 | Philadelphia City Paper

Sitting on the stoop of the family’s house, Luis’ uncle Jose Gonzalez spoke with Daily News reporter Stephanie Farr. “Gonzalez,” she wrote, “of Vineland, N.J., stared blankly with glazed eyes and posed a question. ‘Why do they call this the City of Brotherly Love?’ he asked.”

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