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Don’t Kill Yourself [by Carlos Drummond de Andrade; selected by Stacey Lehman]
I was looking through my copy of Elizabeth Bishop's The Complete Poems: 1927-1979 for the publication date of "One Art" so I could respond to Dean Rader's challenge when I found Bishop's translation of this moving poem. —…
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Don’t Kill Yourself [by Carlos Drummond de Andrade; selected by Stacey Lehman]
I was looking through my copy of Elizabeth Bishop's The Complete Poems: 1927-1979 for the publication date of "One Art" so I could respond to Dean Rader's challenge when I found Bishop's translation of this moving poem. —…
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Demons and Imps [by Mitch Sisskind]
How many demons and imps are in the world? Ha ha! I laugh when I'm asked that question; Demons and imps are numberless and timeless. Angels flit in and out of existence like quarks…
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Louis Auchincloss’s “East Side Story”
On Louis Auchincloss, “East Side Story” (Houghton Mifflin, $24.00, 240 pages; 2004) By David Lehman Fifty-eight years and sixty books ago, Louis Auchincloss began a literary career unlike that of any other contemporary…
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Seamus Heaney: 10th Anniversary of His Death [ed. Terence Winch]
Portrait of Seamus Heany by Edward McGuire, 1974, oil on canvas. Ulster Museum Before I ever met Seamus Heaney in person, he sent me a…
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Seamus Heaney: 10th Anniversary of His Death [ed. Terence Winch]
Portrait of Seamus Heany by Edward McGuire, 1974, oil on canvas. Ulster Museum Before I ever met Seamus Heaney in person, he sent me a…
