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Richard Vargas: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_________________________________________ 13 Angels Rising “Starting early in February investigators recovered 13 sets of skeletal remains from a once-remote section…
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Five Years On: The Day JA Died
[Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, and John Ashbery – (Photographer Unknown, circa 1965)] “….exquisite mind cartoons that could be heard with eyes closed, the voice perfectly ordinary with the slight edge of extravagant conversational camp,…
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On John Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) [by Geoffrey Young]
It’s four a.m. on Labor Day 2017 and a voice on the BBC radio says as I lay in bed awake that John Ashbery died yesterday in Hudson, NY. He turned ninety a month…
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Bad Line Contest [by David Lehman]
In honor of Susan Sontag, who introduced the logic of camp (something so bad that it's good) into the cultural discourse, may I propose a bad line contest? It is remarkable how many bad…
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“7500 km” [by Roald Hoffmann]
Roald Hoffmann7500 km Amid rusting hulls in Petropavlosk-Kamchatskyi, a man is sitting in a boat.He says, “I’ve been waiting for you,let’s go.” So I get in. ”Where?” he asks. “Mariupol.” “Mariupol… You don’t looklike…
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An Evening with the Poems of W. H. Auden [by David Lehman]
Back in 2008, Michael Braziller invited me to give a talk on W. H. Auden at the Philoctetes Society. They made a tape of the proceedings, and here it is. Among the poems we…
