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In China, in 2008: after the quake, before the Olympiad [by David Lehman]
Eleven years have gone by since Stacey and I traveled in China and Mongolia. Here's a blog post from then: << In Jinan, as previously in Dalian, despite the economic disparity between the two…
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The Paris Review Redux: Graduation Season
<<< From The Paris Review Redux: This week at The Paris Review, we’re turning our attention to graduation season. Read our Art of Poetry interview with Eileen Myles, as well as Venita Blackburn’s short story “Fam” and…
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Elizabeth Bishop on John Ashbery’s “Three Poems”
"At first I felt extremely baffled — only a sense of `motion' and the extremely good writing led me on — but now after many re-readings I think I am getting to understand them…
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The weather forecast from “No Time Like Now” (University of Pittsburgh Press) [by Andrei Codrescu]
I don't blow my own horn because I was born in the modest half of the 20th century in a country so overtly serious about writing, especially poetry, poets could be rendered invisible while…
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Writing New York: Cornell University Press Author Panel (Tuesday, May 21, 6 PM)
At The Cornell Club-New York [Tues, May 21]6 East 44th Street Cornell University Press Authors:David Lehman, Robert W. Snyder, and William J. vanden Heuvel Moderated by:Dean John Smith, Director of Cornell University Press Join…
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“Platonic Love” [by Curt Anderson]
We dine at Adorno and return to my Beauvoir.She compliments me on my Bachelard pad.I pop in a Santayana CD and Saussure back to the couch.On my way, I pull out two fine Kristeva…
