Author: Philip Appleman
Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University Philip Appleman has published eight volumes of poetry, including New and Selected Poems, 1956–1996 (University of Arkansas Press, 1996), three novels, including Apes and Angels (Putnam, 1989), and several nonfiction books, including the widely used Norton Critical Edition of Darwin. His Perfidious Proverbs and Other Poems: A Satirical Look at the Bible will be published by Prometheus Books in July.
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OK, Life, you with the grinning clown face, I know I’m not the main attraction here, and of course you’ve slapped me around, whacked me with bladders, booted my behind— but I want you to know that after all those pratfalls, I’ve finally got used to your jabs, your tweaks, your pinches, and— are you …
The Labyrinth: God, Darwin, and the meaning of life
The simpler the society, the cruder the problems: we can imagine Neanderthals crouching in fear—of the tiger, of the dark, of thunder—but we do not suppose they had the leisure for exquisite neuro ses. We have changed all that. Replete with leisure time and creature comforts but nervously dependent on a network of unfathomable technologies, …
The Animals, All the Animals / Hymn of Praise to the Intelligent Designer
The Animals, All the Animals At ground zero, of course, there is nothing to report. It’s out beyond the epicenter where the changes are describable: cats seared like suckling pigs, dogs that will never chase cats again, barbecued like chickens on their chains. The cities are all alike: nothing to report. On the farms, horses …