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The Cowboy [by James Tate]
The Cowboy Someone had spread an elaborate rumor about me, that I wasin possession of an extraterrestrial being, and I thought I knew whoit was. It was Roger Lawson. Roger was a…
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“Whitman in the Eleventth Grade” [by David Lehman]
The following, part I of "Opening Shot," was written at the request of Sandy McIntosh, the brilliant and visionary publisher of Marsh Hawk Press:<<<In high school I read “Song of Myself” in a course…
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Shakespare’s sonnet #33
Full many a glorious morning have I seenFlatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,Kissing with golden face the meadows green,Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;Anon permit the basest clouds to rideWith ugly rack on his…
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“Brush Up Your Berlin” [by David Lehman]
From The American Scholar TUNING UP - AUTUMN 2009 Brush Up Your Berlin And beware of kiss-me-I’m-poetical junk By David Lehman | September 1, 2009 The practice of poetry ruled my life from the time I entered college.…
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Letter to Cummins from the Island of Idyllwild [by David Lehman and David St. John]
Letter to Cummins from the Island of Idyllwild Dear Jim, forgive the long delay in writingBut the feasts go on from dawn to dawnAnd the natives insist on feeding us by hand,…
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“Lulu’s Back in Town” [with Fats Waller]
Fats Waller Live in 1935 You and I both know why“all my blondes and brunettes”become“all my Harlem coquettes”when Fats Waller sings“Lulu’s Back in Town”after playing it on the pianoin 1935. Think of that: in…
