Friday, June 19, 2015. There are pickpockets in Barcelona, I am told. But I am not worried. My hand is in my pocket, and my belongings are secure. The map obscured my view. The young man with the map looked like an American college student. I felt for, and found my wallet, secreted away in a protected pocket, and looked the would-be thief in the eye.

My Life as a Foreign Country. W W Norton and Company. A war memoir of unusual literary beauty and power from the acclaimed poet who wrote the poem The Hurt Locker. My Life as a Foreign Country. My Life as a Foreign Country.

Is it an artistic block or am I simply uninspired? Is it possible for the creative juices to simply dry up without warning? I have done some writing this year, and been published in a handful of places. Likewise, my work with sound has been limited this year as well.

Caitlin Doyle writes highly original poems .

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I first met Neal not long after my father died. With the coming of Neal there really began for me that part of my life that you could call my life on the road. On The Road, the scroll version. Kerouac bobs to the beat. From the last sentence of.