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There's nothing but tragedy in the trial of a young black man who has killed a white man for driving on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday weekend with a Confederate flag flying on his truck, an incident that has thoroughly riven the once fairly harmonious town of Guthrie, Ky.
A poem, says historicist criticism, will always be riven by the historical contradictions that surround it.
Book -- Riven Rock , by T. Coraghessan Boyle;
When they think about riven families and social pathology in the inner city, they generally blame "people's lack of personal responsibility."