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Emily Dickinson 2 [by Mitch Sisskind]
Preoccupied by photography ever since That absurd daguerreotype image of her Appeared in 1847 she presents herself Several times a week at the sidewalk Booth of Amherst's tintype photographer Always in one or another of…
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“To Summer” (a sonnet) [by David Lehman]
Shall I compare a season to a day, a woman to a body like a violin?Summer is the reason for my grin,and on that violin I would play. In the nave of her church I…
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Wang Ping: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
Wang Ping on the rooftop of Rudy Burckhardt's apartment building in NYC. Photo by Rudy…
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Janet Malcolm (1934-2021) on Plath & Hughes [by David Lehman]
THE SILENT WOMAN: SYLVIA PLATH & TED HUGHESBy Janet MalcolmNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 208 pages. $23.Reviewed for the Boston Globe by David Lehman (March 1994) Janet Malcolm is among the most intellectually…
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A CERTAIN CLARITY, AND TWO POEMS BY LAWRENCE JOSEPH [by John Hennessy]
Happy Juneteenth! As noted earlier this week, I hope to take this opportunity to raise awareness of a few books that were launched in the early days of the pandemic. Lawrence Joseph's A…
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Invisibility Leaves Traces [by Lera Auerbach]
Ink on Paper by Lera Auerbach My grandmother Alichka, whose birthday I always remember as it coincides with International Women's Day in March, had a Singer sewing machine. It occupied all the wall space between…
