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“A Letter” [by David Shapiro]
A Letter It's three o’clock. The Mongolians should be asleep.Mayakovsky sleeps and Josef Brodskyused my book as a door stopa few minutes after I gave it to him.The Inner and Outer Mongolia sleep.And David…
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Mary Jo Salter Presents “The Death of Argos,” a Sonnet Sequence by Nicholas Pierce (Day 10)
Mary Jo Salter (photo right) concludes two weeks of presenting “The Death of Argos” by Nicholas Pierce. What new thing can be done with old forms like the sonnet? One answer comes from a…
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Eliot’s “Ass Wednesday” [by Mitch Sisskind]
As we move into Lent, Eliot's "Ass-Wednesday" is a work to which we naturally return. Is it surprising to discover the poet's inscription to Scott Fitzgerald "with the author's homage"? At first thought the…
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On Richard Wilbur’s Birthday: “Mind”
Mind Mind in its purest play is like some batThat beats about in caverns all alone,Contriving by a kind of senseless witNot to conclude against a wall of stone. It has no need to…
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Seven Splendid Anthologies [by David Lehman]
* Louis Untermeyer, A Concise Treasure of American Poetry (Pocket Books). A peerless one-volume introduction to American poetry. Untermeyer's biographical notes and comments are exemplary. See the note on William Cullen Bryant. * The…
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Myra Sklarew: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________ Birdland for Sterling Brown So I take my seven bucks to buy a…
