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“Famous Poet Born” [by Loren Goodman]
Famous Poet Born Pedro Octavio Vargas von Schlimm was born yesterday in Buenos AiresHe will go on to write seventeen books of poetry and four novels, a bodyOf work for which he will be…
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“Wake” [by Stephen Kampa, with commentary from Mary Jo Salter]
<< Here’s a poem that begins like a children’s rhyme (we might think of “Here is the church, here is the steeple”) and has the fun of rhyming “uglies” with “snugglies.” Yet how quickly…
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“Wake” [by Stephen Kampa, with commentary from Mary Jo Salter]
<< Here’s a poem that begins like a children’s rhyme (we might think of “Here is the church, here is the steeple”) and has the fun of rhyming “uglies” with “snugglies.” Yet how quickly…
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“RENE CHAR : Isle-Sur-Sorgue” [by Geoffrey Young]
It was early July, 1970, and we were at Le Chateau d’Lignane, guests of the Boutié family in Aix-en-Provence. Laura had spent a month with them when she was sixteen. The house had an…
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“RENE CHAR : Isle-Sur-Sorgue” [by Geoffrey Young]
It was early July, 1970, and we were at Le Chateau d’Lignane, guests of the Boutié family in Aix-en-Provence. Laura had spent a month with them when she was sixteen. The house had an…
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Lina Wertmüller, August 14, 1928 – December 9, 2021
Tracy Danison, who writes for us from Paris, e-mailed me last week with the news that Lina Wertmüller, the award winning director, had died in Rome, at 93. Together we had seen a series…
