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“Song” [by Edwin Denby]
I don't know any more what it used to beBefore I saw you at table sitting across from meAll I can remember is I saw you look at meAnd I couldn't breathe and I…
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The Bob Dylan Entry in the “Oxford Book of American Poetry”
We repost this piece, which first appeared on 8 / 9 / 08, eight years before Dylan won the Nobel Prize. The questions raised remain worth asking. It never fails to amuse me that…
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WORKING SPACE, post-script: CLOSER TO HOME [by Jennifer Clarvoe]
Art calls to art; the conversation remains by design ongoing, unfinished. I’m thinking about all pieces I didn't address. The very last visit I made to a museum was local–the Harvard Art Museum–to meet…
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Grace Cavalieri: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________________________________________ The Sound That Haunting Makes I'd like to talk about how the day went, talk as we used to do, not with singing words, but smaller celebrations gathered until we noticed the…
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Smelling Beyond Words [by Lera Auerbach]
На птичьих правах – Ink on Paper by Lera Auerbach There is a phrase in Russian, ‘na ptich'ikh pravakh’, having birds' rights. To live ‘na ptich'ikh pravakh’ means not having proper rights to occupy space (i.e.,…
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“Young Blue Eyes: Frankie in the Forties” [by David Lehman]
Back in January 2008, when Dwight Garner was editing the "Living with Music" blog for the New York Times, I got to write a column on my top twenty Sinatra tracks from the 1940s,…
