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Robert Hass on John Ashbery (1998)
This is from Robert Hass's "poet's choice" column in The Washington Post, October 11, 1998: <<<One of the new fall books is John Ashbery's Wakefulness. There is also a new and very readable book…
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Acting Noir [by David Lehman and Suzanne Lummis]
Who’s Your Favorite Noir Actor? Suzanne Lummis: I can’t choose between Richard Widmark [left] and Dan Duryea, both consummate artists, absolute originals who enlivened every scene of every movie they appeared in with their…
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Fred and Peggy in “The Best Years of Our Lives”
Dana Andrews, left, and Teresa Wright, steering the wheel, in The Best Years of Our Lives. And he's thinking: if only I could get a good job. And she's thinking: when I think that…
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“Visitation” [by Tony Hoagland (1953-2018)]
Now when I visit Ellen’s body in my memory,it is like visiting a cemetery. I lookat the chiseled, muscular bellyand at the perfect thirty-year old breastsand the fine blond purse of her pussyand I…
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From “Voices of Mississippi 1957” (by Mitch Sisskind)
Reed PolifaxUniversity Student In Mississippi the Polifax name commandsRespect so I need to be careful about whom I marry and that is the reason I pledgedPhi Delta Theta — not that there was Ever…
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Elizabeth Turk, Sculptor Extraordinaire [by David Lehman]
Do you know the work Of Elizabeth Turk? You should! It's awfully good. http://www.elizabethturkstudios.com/
