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What Were You Reading in 2009? [by David Lehman]
What Are You (Looking Forward to) Reading, David Lehman? By Craig Morgan Teicher / July 29, 2009 [Thank you for asking, Craig.] Like other busy people I tend to read more during the summer,…
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“Franz Liszt” [from “The Bonus Round” by Mitch Sisskind]
If this were the 21st of October. . .I'd say happy birthday, Franz! You too, Mitch! I've been (is this the right word?)An ignoramus. I revere Liszt and nowI finally see how his…
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Tom Stoppard, “The Most Grateful Englishman” [by Kyle Smith]
Tom Stoppard frequently and approvingly quotes Cecil Rhodes’s remark, much ridiculed by those in a position to take their own culture for granted, that “to be born an Englishman is to have drawn first prize…
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Benjy at Buddha Bodhai [by Joel Weiner]
In lower Manhattan there's a kosher vegan restaurantBy name Buddha BodhaiBuddha wasn't a Jew nor did he observe KashrutThe code of Jewish law regarding food observanceSo he did eat leopard and may have incarnated…
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Two Prose Poems in the New “DMQ” [by David Lehman]
Two Prose Pems by David Lehman My Dinner with Michel Foucault Foucault called me Jack. He called everyone Jack. He called Derrida Jack, not Jacques (Jock), when the two them were on speaking terms,…
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nourbeSe philip: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
___________________________________ The Poets Awoke The poets awoke The poets awoke one morning The poets awoke one morning to find The poets awoke…
