Allison Backous

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Allison Backous Mar 1, 2013 Essay Persuasion

We read memoirs so we can view both self and others with a more tender and convicting eye.

Allison Backous Mar 23, 2012 Uncategorized

Now we have come to the setting of the sun and behold the light of evening.

Allison Backous Sep 1, 2011 Essay The good society

What would it do for us if, instead of skipping over the difficult stories of our lives, we put them on paper?

Allison Backous Apr 8, 2011 Book Review

Christian Wiman’s work adds to poetry’s larger cultural, public, and personal aims, to develop habits of virtue, to help us survive.

Allison Backous Sep 17, 2010 Uncategorized

A collection of quick prose and violent ends, to be read for image as much as plot.