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  • Caws from midnight black crows on midnight black wires as the men left the car, an expression of consternation held identical between the officer and his partner.

    The Thing on Marlow Street 2010

  • Mary Ann Caws, who also translated René Char and moved her family to Vaucluse to be near him, spoke of the effect of his death on her work, during a lecture she delivered in a small classroom at Boston University in 2008.

    THE BRITTLE AGE AND RETURNING UPLAND by RENE CHAR EILEEN 2009

  • Caws Ai yam, adn we gotz teh possumz adn rackety coons adn purrsmimons adn cawtin moufs adn snappin turtlols.

    GOODYEAR - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Later, a crowd packed the VIP reception inside the Manifest Hope gallery (featuring the good, bad, and weird of Obama-inspired art) to hear a group performance by Ben Gibbard, Jenny Lewis (of Rilo Kiley and 1980s video-game classic The Wizard), Jonathan Rice, Mathew Caws, and actress-cum-chanteuse Zooey Deschanel.

    Nathaniel Bach: DNC After Dark: Party-Hopping In Denver 2008

  • It is those moments that Caws makes fascinating and appealing by using the women's own words whenever possible, as any good scholar might, but also by stretching a bit, speculating.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • Caws is not just celebrating interesting lives, lives deserving more notice -- she is showing ways that women learned to live according to their own standards, ways that women crafted lives for themselves in societies and cultures where the sorts of lives they wanted to live were seldom rewarded and were often perilous.

    Glorious Eccentrics 2007

  • The chapter on Bussy is a masterpiece, because in it Caws quotes at length from Bussy's letters and journals, trying to show, as she later tries to show with Carrington, that her love was not something to be scoffed at, dismissed, or marginalized, as many writers about the men have done.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • Each chapter has a different sort of approach, because, as Caws says at the beginning

    Glorious Eccentrics 2007

  • Each chapter has a different sort of approach, because, as Caws says at the beginning

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • Caws is not just celebrating interesting lives, lives deserving more notice -- she is showing ways that women learned to live according to their own standards, ways that women crafted lives for themselves in societies and cultures where the sorts of lives they wanted to live were seldom rewarded and were often perilous.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

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