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“A Wicker Basket” [by Robert Creeley, 1926-2005]
A Wicker Basket Comes the time when it's later and onto your table the headwaiter puts the bill, and very soon after rings out the sound of lively laughter— Picking up change, hands like…
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“Five New Tell-All Autobios” [by David Lehman]
Five New Tell-All Autobios The Magnitude of Meby Reggie Jackson Who Should Play Me, Pacino or De Niro?by Andrew Cuomo Manny Machado and Meby Manny Machado Greatness Arouses Bitch Jealousy by Faye Dunaway The Art…
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A la recherche de sanity perdu: City of Light offers circus respite [By Tracy Danison]
“Hourvari”, circus performance by Marie Molliens. Photo © Ryo Ichii BREAKING NEWS For a limited time only, the circus will be in the streets – at least under a big top on the lovely, comfortable,…
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World faces catastrophic narrowing of way of being says expert [By Tracy Danison]
“Nos corps vivants”, performance by Arthur Perol. Photo © Nina-Flore Hernandez The other evening, I went to see a friend do a storytelling performance he called “The Drunken Rabbit”. It featured such not-quite-only-for-children animal…
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No Iscariot is Scariett: “THE 100 BEST, NOT SO WELL KNOWN, POETS IN ENGLISH, PART ONE”
Ed note: Scariett, which sprang up some years ago, in a rebellion against the Poetry Foundation's oficial "Harriet" blog, does some very interesting stuff. This is the outfit that, in an earlier post, listed…
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Leonard Bernstein’s Divertimento diverted me when I drove my car on Highland Road today
Sixteen Tons To prolong the momentas a simile extends a sentenceabout the heroine’s innocencewhich she yielded to her lover and nowshe hates him as Eve hates Adamwhen she risks her lifeto give birth to…
