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Lewis Saul, Guest Author June 16-22
This week we welcome Lewis Saul as our guest blogger. Lewis is a composer who lives in Tucson, AZ. He studied composition at Juilliard and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. You can read his…
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The Map of His Dreams [by Lera Auerbach]
My father never asks for directions. Even when he’s lost – he looks quite confident. He spends long hours studying his collection of maps. If it’s not in the map – its existence…
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The Complete Works of Frank Zappa — an American Composer (1940-1993) (Part 1) [by Lewis R. Saul]
Next week will mark the 47th anniversary of Frank Zappa's first release, Freak Out! (#01)* (June 27, 1966). On December 12th, 2012, Gail Zappa released Finer Moments (#94), a beautifully-packaged double-CD of music from 1969-1972. To…
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Infinite Jest, Unjust Thrust? [by Jeremiah West]
What is wrong with this sentence from the June 3 issue of The Nation?<<<In her introduction to the catalog [of Infinite Jest, a show about political cartoons at the Metropolitan Musuem of Art two…
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“Do Husbands Matter?” [by David Lehman]
<<<Collaboration between poets and their peers in poetry and painting is a crucial element of modernism and of avant-garde art in general, and it’s a prized feature of the New York School. John Ashbery…
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Final Blog: The Persona Poem. Veronica Golos
This is my final blog, (and just when I’ve gotten used to it!). I’d like to thank Molly Peacock for suggesting me to Stacey Harwood, Managing Editor of Best American Poetry blog, and for…
