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Three Sonnets on Lines of John Ashbery [by Mitch Sisskind]
1.We've heard lots of names hereTonight but I'll tell you one nameWe have not heard which is theName of Slobodnik who wasThe janitor at the high schoolWhere I worked and one dayHe said swimming…
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On Tony Towle’s “Late Sketches & Studies” [by Martin Stannard]
“Late Sketches & Studies” by Tony Towle, pub. Kulvert Books, 48pp. £12.99. Let’s begin this with a quotation: you come by to type your poems and write a new poem instead on my old typewriter while I…
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The Broken Eyeglasses [end of part 1 of Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”]
<<<He turned the handle and opened the door and fumbled for the handle of the green baize door inside. He found it and pushed it open and went in. He saw the rector sitting…
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Amapola & Besame Mucho, Cielito Lindo & Granada [sung by Juan Diego Florez] & Benny Goodman’s “Amapola”
Great singer. . .and also listen to Benny Goodman on the clarinet
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How Reviewers at the NY Times treated Fitzgerald, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, et al
YThis is how reviewers at the NY Times treated certain books: Scott Fitzgerald:“Bad news is best blurted out at once: ‘Tender Is the Night’ is a disappointment. Though it displays Mr. Fitzgerald’s most engaging…
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The Ashbery Influence [by David Lehman]
Do not underestimate JA's influence. In 1989 I wrote a poem titled "One Size Fits All: A Critical Essay." It appeared in the New York Review of Books and has been anthologized in The…
