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Ben Jonson’s “My Picture Left in Scotland”
I now think Love is rather deaf than blind, For else it could not be That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight meAnd cast my love behind.I’m sure my language to…
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Judy Gemini Could Go On Singing [by David Lehman]
Judy Garland: The Road Gets Rougher Born to sing America’s all-time favorite movie song, Harold Arlen’s “Over the Rainbow,” Judy Garland was as natural a Gemini as you will find…
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“My Bohemia” [by Arthur Rimbaud; trans. Bill Zavatsky]
I took off, fists in my torn pockets;Even my coat was becoming an idea;I went beneath the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal;Oo-la-la did I dream some love affairs! My only pair of…
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“Lining-Up (for Charles North)” [by David Lehman]
This poem was inspired by a dream I had in which Amy Gerstler and I were on the same softball team, with her in lead-off position playing shortstop. Charles North has written many great…
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“Australia’s Gwen Harwood: Nomad of the Mind” [by Thomas Moody]
Today is the 100th birthday of Gwen Harwood, one of Australia’s finest poets and most famous hoaxers. On August 5, 1961, Harwood published a pair of sonnets, “Eloisa to Abelard” and “Abelard to Eloisa,”…
