Knights of the Razor David Samuel Smokler coupled with new housing preferences

coupled with new housing preferences for residential units with transit accessibility and proximity to stores and restaurants

and youth's passions: for natural history (as in the group of bird poems entitled "Plato's Aviary")

and supplies the title for the central cycle of poems in My Reef My Manifest Array

through this

Knights of the Razor David Samuel Smokler coupled with new housing preferencesBlack barbers, reflected a freed slave who barbered in antebellum St. Louis, may have been 'the only men in their community who enjoyed, at all times, the privilege of free speech.' The reason, of course, lay in their temporary but absolute power over a client. With a flick of the wrist, nineteenth century black barbers could have slit the throats of the white men they shaved. In Knights of the Razor, Douglas Walter Bristol, Jr., explores this