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“Days of Winter” and “Limbo” [poems by Sean Singer from “Today in the Taxi”]
Days of Winter Today in the taxi I brought a Chinese couple, parents of a student at Columbia, from Amsterdam Avenue to JFK. The girl was crying, the mother was crying, etc. The parents…
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“The Value of Stones” [by Michael Quattrone]
The Value of Stones It’s never what they weigh; it’s not the depthof silence they have known; it’s not the round-or hardness of their edges, certain coloror uncertain age that proffer worth. Metals,crystals, precious…
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Nomads [poem by Charles Baudelaire tr. Sandra Simonds]
Portrait of a 23-year-old Baudelaire, painted in 1844 by Émile Deroy (1820–1846) Nomads A tribe of prophetsmoves through the mistcarrying a bit of moneyand little kids on their backs,kids with enormous appetites.The men are…
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“Aubade” by Max Harris [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Max Harris is best known as the editor responsible for publishing the oeuvre of the fictional poet Ern Malley. The hoax has become the stuff of legend and Harris’s role as the dupe overshadows…
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Darragh Park’s Cover for “Two Journals” by James Schuyler
In 1985 James Schuyler and Darragh park commenced on the project of "accompanying journals," in Park's phrase, Schuyler's in prose and Park's in drawings. The journals were not "mutually descriptive," but did reflect conversations…
