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Remembering Tom Disch, February 2, 1940 – July 4, 2008 [by Dana Gioia]
Tom Disch, who died on this day in 2008, is pictured here with his terrific computer game "Amnesia," a participatory novel in which the player awakes naked in a hotel room without any clues…
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Wendy Xu: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________ I Must Change My Form It’s true, nothing is coming out like it used to anymore Usually I am…
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“Male Stargazing” [by Jim Cummins]
Male Stargazing After the prostate is removed,The male gaze, straight from the savannah,Turns inward, toward the clinical.The perusal of breasts is no longerThe perusal of breasts, but the aestheticsOf proportion: how the breastsRelate to…
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“Letters to Dead Editors” [by Tom Disch]
On July 1, 2008, at 11:16AM, Tom Disch revealed God's "other" Big Idea of the day. He called it "Letters to Dead Editors." <<<Another were-there-but-world-enough theme anthology. It was to have been a whole…
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Splash, splash [by Mitch Sisskind]
When I told Joe about how Sam Giancana Punched Sammy Davis Jr. in the stomach At Frank Sinatra's house Joe looked at me And said, "I am like a frog that's been sitting "Quietly…
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“In night when colors all to black are cast”: Fulke Greville’s Great Sonnet
In night when colors all to black are cast, Distinction lost, or gone down with the light; The eye a watch to inward senses placed, Not seeing, yet still having powers of sight, Gives…
