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“Almost inevitably, like kudzu in the summer, slavery started spreading in Georgia.”

I was drawn to one in particular, a crumbling two-story structure collapsing under the kudzu.

“I’m so used to this kudzu sprawl of figurative language,” she said, “and simple can feel like ‘see spot run,’ but there are simple words like prime integers that carry so much meaning when sung.”

And kudzu vines from Japan planted to stabilize soils have spread to dozens of states where they choke out other plants.

Teaching and scholarship seem secondary to the nonacademic agendas of institutions’ bureaucracies, which grow like kudzu.