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Rick Barot: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_______________________________________________________ A Poem as Long as California This is my pastoral: the used car lot where someone read Song of Myself over the loudspeaker all that afternoon, to customers…
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“Zaftig” [by David Lehman]
Zaftig The word means fleshy in a sensual, feminine way though sometimes it just means extra-large. It’s a word you may not know if you’re not from New York but from the heartland, the prairie,…
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Hans Josephsohn, sculptor of genius, artistic heritage, Solomon Grundy and Emily Dickinson [By Tracy Danison]
Untitled, undated, Hans Josephsohn. Photo © Musée de l’art moderne de Paris Sick of your compatriots after months of gazing anxiously into their inscrutable faces? Thinking of Paris as a place where you might…
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Who wrote “Laura”?
The lyrics were written (after the movie was released) by Johnny mercer, but the comoser was David Raksin, who also wrote the music for The Bad and the Beautiful. Dick Haymes does justice to…
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“For the Slip’N Slide” by George Bilgere (by Nin Andrews)
I keep trying to figure out how we arrived here, and what country and planet we are now living in/on. When did this all begin? I grew up in the 60's in the midst…
