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A Grateful Reminiscence of Harold Bloom [by Willard Spiegelman]
The current issue of Literary Matters includes "A Garland for Harold Bloom." For the other entries, click here. <<<In one of my earliest years as an assistant professor, the man who hired me at…
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“Why Rimbaud” [by David Shapiro]
Why Rimbaud for D. L. Why Rimbaud, ambivalent boy Who renounced music Geology, murder, adulthood, throwing a stone at a stranger A butterfly lands on his lapel like a Jewish…
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from “Literary Matters,” A Poem by A. F. Moritz: “High Windows”
High Windows This is the jobthat finallythey gave me:in spring, in autumnto sweep up the bodiesof finchesaround the basesof the crystal-windowedtowers. When I used to sleepon the streets,it was similar: one of usdied, the…
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BLESSED AS WE ARE: Happy 95th Birthday, Gerald Stern! (II) [by Mihaela Moscaliuc]
What other poet is on his knees in the…
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SAVE THE DATE ITHACA: February 27, 2020 David Lehman reads from “One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir”
Thursday, February 27, 20205:30 pm Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca, New York 14850 607 273 8246 info@buffalostreetbooks.com In One Hundred Autobiographies, poet and scholar David Lehman applies the full measure…
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“Arden of Faversham (after a dream I had close to Christmas 2019)” [by Molly Arden]
This year on her Saint's Day, Molly, whose name came from Mary, decided to be Mary Magdalene. She let her hair down, put on her chaste dress, which resembled a burlap sack, grabbed her…
