three photographs, by louie clay
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Three photographs
Louie Clay
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I took this picture with the web cam in my
computer on the day after a surgeon
removed squamous cell carcinoma from
the top of my head.
I wrote a poem about it,
which I read here.
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I took this picture in 1983 while teaching at
the Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute.
The grandmother and her child doze in the bright
sun on a very cold day by the entrance to the
innermost part of the emperor's palace. It
demonstrates freedoms that emperors never
allowed. The grandmother's drabness contrasts
with the child's colorfulness as the old order
changes and makes way for the new.
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My husband Ernest Clay fried these
as part of a simple feast.
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We have lots of feasts. Here’s a picture of us taken
last July 26th when the Supreme Court legitimized our
39-year-old marriage
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Louie Crew's photography has appeared in many publications.
Editors have also published 2,288 of his essays and poems.
Crew is an emeritus professor at Rutgers. He's in
Wikipedia.He has edited special issues of College English
and Margins. The University of Michigan collects Crew's
papers.
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