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from “Vertical Poetry” by Roberto Juarroz [trans. by W. S. Merwin]
Every word is a doubt, every silence another doubt. However, the intertwining of both lets us breathe. All sleeping is a sinking down, all waking another sinking. However, the intertwining of both lets…
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Marsh Hawk Press Announces Its 2021 Book Contest
October 2020 David Lehman to Judge the 2021 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prizes Read about him here. Available Now: Where Did Poetry Come From by Geoffrey O'Brien "A remarkable book: nothing has…
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Sacha Baron Cohen Double-Bill Rerun [by Alan Ziegler]
Sacha Baron Cohen can currently be seen as Borat in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America…" and as Abbie Hoffman in The Trial of the Chicago 7, so I am rerunning my encounter with Baron Cohen (in…
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The Secret of Secrets [by Sir Henry Taylor]
From Sir Henry Taylor, "On Secrecy" (1836: <<< A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. >>> I believe Poe was paying attention. Borges, too. – DL
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“All Me Senses, Like Beacon’s Flame” [by Fulke Greville, introduced by Robert Pinsky]
Click here for Robert Pinsky's explication of Fulke Greville's great poem that begins "All my senses, like beacon's flame," from which the following excerpts are taken: <<< This month's classic poem narrates an adulterous…
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“My Husband is a Left Wing Snob” [by Molly Arden]
My husband is a left wing snob and I love him anyway because the road to salvation leads through the tunnelof sexual intercourse. I have read de Sadeas well as the Story of O, My Secret…
