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Writing In The Face Of Death: Review of David Lehman’s “One Hundred Autobiographies” [by Sandee Brawarsky in The New York Jewish Week]
David Lehman, October 23, 2019. photo © Stacey Lehman Even when David Lehman can barely walk, he can write, and he can listen. Throughout the three years of his struggle with bladder cancer, he…
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Machine de cirque: something improbably different at La Scala [by Tracy Danison]
Machine de Cirque, quantum acrobacy with gemütlichkeit ©Loup-William Théberge Imagine the Marx Brothers endowed with Buster Keaton’s naïve humor, tutored under Zen discipline by Cirque du Soleil’s best acrobats. You have pretty much imagined Machine de Cirque –…
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“Perfidia” [as sung by Helen Forrest with the Benny Goodman band] plus a poem
Perfidia You don’t know who these people are, or whatThey’ll do to you if you’re caught, but you can’tBack out now: it seems you agreed to carryA briefcase into Germany, and here you are,Glass…
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10/22/2019 (by Mitch Sisskind)
It’s my birthday, I’m 147, I’m 741,I wake in darkness lying on my sideAnd as I feel a very slight stirring Against my back I wonder mightThis be from the Cthulhu Mythos:Yig, or Olkoth,…
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Noted with Pleasure [by Stacey Lehman]
On Sundays my father brought home the New York Times and a dozen bagels. We spread out the sections on the dining room table and sometimes read aloud to each other. Mostly, we ate…
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Mary Jo Bang and David Lehman Read Their Poems at DIA
Happy birthday, Mary Jo Bang. . .
