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The Square Root of Despair [by Kierkegaard & Walker Percy]
"The specific character of despair is that it is unaware of its despair'' — Kierkegaard Epigraph to Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer –DL
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What is dance, what has it got to do with us and why? [By Pauline Tremblay]
“Corps social Corps dansant”, Pauline Tremblay. Photo © Mireille Huguet Introduction Some years ago, I was in the habit of going to weekly public presentations on psychoanalysis. I would lose myself an hour or…
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Introduction to The Incredible Sestina Anthology [by Daniel Nester]
What follows is the introduction I wrote for The Incredible Sestina Anthology, which is about to be released by Write Bloody Publishing. It's a culmination of about ten years of off-and-on work, which began when…
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“Parable” by Louise Glück [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Last Saturday’s referendum to alter Australia’s constitution to recognize the First Peoples of Australia by establishing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice failed to pass. It is, I feel, a…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: October 18, 2023
Here is a dispatch from Peter Johnson…. The Question of the Day: Why would Peter Johnson, an established poet with a decent reputation, give away a book of fragments/prose poems called Observations at the Edge…
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Missed the Game [by David Lehman]
Missed the game until the top of the eighthat the Knickerbocker the sound off the TVI ordered a vesper and a burger and the Mets fan on my left, a chess instructor,filled me in,…
