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AN ESSAY ON STEPHEN CRANE BY BLAKE BRONSON-BARTLETT [ROBERT FERNANDEZ]
I asked my friend, the artist and scholar Blake Bronson-Bartlett, to write us a little essay about Stephen Crane. Blake and I had been discussing Crane’s curious status and reception in the history of…
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“Lazy” by Ryōkan
Lazy Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days’ worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain…
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A CONVERSATION WITH MMC DA CLICK [ROBERT FERNANDEZ]
MMC Da Click’s sound isn’t easily classifiable. They remind me of the Weeknd or Frank Ocean, which is to say theirs is a somewhat psychedelic, poetic cast of hip-hop and R&B, but they also…
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SIX PLATES FROM *PEARLS BEFORE SWINE*, BY ROBERT FERNANDEZ
[i] [ii] [iii] [iv] [v] [vi] [i] “Album Zutique” Text: “The Album Zutique was a communal journal for the poets and artists with whom Rimbaud associated while living in Paris….They called themselves Zutistes, a word coined from…
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Sherman Alexie has a great new poem (in APR)
The new APR (July / August 2012) also has stunning work by poets Catherine Barnett, Elaine Equi, and Dara Wier. The issue, whether by design or not, has compelling evidence of the vitality of…
