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Met Percent: Week Ten [by Alec Bernstein]
Sonrientes Smiling Figure (Sonrientes), 7th-8th c. Remojadas, gallery 358. Not much is known about this happy figure. There are mixed cues: male and female, old and young, spirit and human, dwarf and child. It’s…
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“The Big Clock” — Kenneth Fearing’s novel, John Farrow’s film [by David Lehman]
On TCM on a recent Sunday at midnight and again at 10 AM, Eddie Muller of Noir Alley showed The Big Clock (1948), a great movie adapted from the fearless Fearing novel centered on a…
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Kaia and Krista (by Mitch Sisskind)
I sold a Miro painting for a rich guy That was basically a big number 68 And oddly enough it sold for about 68,000 so I got a nice finder’s fee But it would…
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“Folklore” (for Tony Hoagland) [by Denise Duhamel]
–for Tony Hoagland (1953-2018) You were folklore in Tucson, where you graduated the year before I arrived, where I befriended Agha Shahid Ali, now also gone, whom you had befriended before me. Shahid…
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“The Triumph of Bullshit” [by T. S. Eliot]
Did you know that T. S. Eliot wrote a poem entitled "The Triumph of Bullshit"? Neither did I until I started reading The Poems of T. S. Eliot, volume one (Farrar, Straus & Giroux),…
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“Jayne Cortez and Ted Joans” [by Robert Hershon]
Twenty years ago or so, when I was still director of The Print Center, I was at a book party, chatting with Jayne Cortez [pictured left] and Ted Joans. “I need to come out…
