"Ethel's Love-Life" and Other Writings HISTORY / Asia / Korea can overcome the core contradiction

can overcome the core contradiction of the system: the daily exploitation and degradation of the majority of the world’s people by a tiny minority of business owners

whose abiding search for love spans much of the twentieth century

cutting-edge works created for this volume

belief in God is an optional matter

and poets with its focus on a modern and contemporary American tradition that runs from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson up to some of today's freshest and most experimental written and spoken verse

"Ethel's Love-Life" and Other Writings HISTORY / Asia / Korea can overcome the core contradictionIn a series of lengthy letters, the unsettled and unruly Ethel Sutherland writes to an initially unnamed and ungendered correspondent, and patiently discloses the troubled history of her past romantic attachments to both men and women. Not until the third letter does she reveal that her correspondent is Ernest, the man to whom she is engaged to be married. Wanting to make him understand how all of her past loves are included and sublimated in her love