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Fairfield Porter’s Portrait of JA (1952)
Fairfield Porter, John Ashbery (Argyle Socks), 1952. IM John Ashbery, July 28, 1927 — September 3, 2017
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Scandal alert: Katha Pollitt on the self-deconstruction of Avital Ronell
In The Nation, Katha Pollitt writes: <<<What are we to make of the bizarre story of Avital Ronell and Nimrod Reitman? She’s a superstar deconstructionist professor at New York University, teaching in the German…
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Save the Date: Thursday, September 20 The Best American Poetry 2018 Launch Reading
The New SchoolThe Auditorium 66 W 12 Street, New York, NY 7 PM Best American Poetry series editor David Lehman and guest editor Dana Gioia headline an all-star cast of poets included in this year's much…
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On Auden’s “September 1, 1939”: An Exchange with Lawrence Raab [by David Lehman]
<<<October 30, 2001Dear David It was very nice indeed to meet you and hear your poems. I have a quick question. Do I remember correctly your saying that you had received via e-mail a…
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“September 1, 1939” [by W. H. Auden]
Here it is again: September 1, 1939, seventy-eight years later. Can you picture Auden at that "dive" on Fifty-Second Street, (aka Swing Street) on that terrible day when the Germans invaded Poland and quaked…
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“September 1, 1939” [by W. H. Auden]
September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the divesOn Fifty-second StreetUncertain and afraidAs the clever hopes expireOf a low dishonest decade:Waves of anger and fearCirculate over the brightAnd darkened lands of the earth,Obsessing…
