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A Fashion Line Based on Joe Brainard’s Work
Ron Padgett sent out this announcement: 1/25/21 The Madrid-based fashion house of Loewe has a young designer named Jonathan Anderson who is so crazy about Joe's work that he has based an entire line…
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“Days of 1896” [by C. P. Cavafy]
Days of 1896 He became completely degraded. His erotic tendency,condemned and strictly forbidden(but innate for all that), was the cause of it:society was totally prudish.He gradually lost what little money he had,then his social…
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Sestina for Harry (Mathews) [by Joseph McElroy, with notes]
SESTINA for HARRY And for Marie Not sure you’re here or where in solitarySplendor. Truth, our life and letters not a wreck Waiting to happen quite yet, your absence less rawThan real — dark,…
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Anne Harding Woodworth: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_________________________________________________________________________________ Looking Homeward Bill Waldron spared my mother and father agony by teaching me how to drive a stick…
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Poetry and the Movies: Daily Double [by Mindy Aloff]
Question: What is the greatest feature film ever made about a poet? Give the title of the film and the name of the poet who served as its subject. Answer: The Color of Pomegranates (image, above),…
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The Great B-Sides [by David Lehman]
I just heard Bobby Darin sing "Beyond the Sea" — wonderful song translated from the French of Charles Trenet — followed by Sinatra's "Summer Wind." It seems worth pointing out that neither song was…
