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Buñuel, Dalí, Le Chien Andalou, Buñuel’s Memoirs [by Sharon Dolin]
I’ve been thinking about Andalusian Dog (Le Chien Andalou), the 1917 film that Buñuel and Dalí collaborated on. The most famous image, one that Buñuel dreamed, is of the cloud passing before the moon…
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Burn the Textbooks, or: Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite, by Todd Boss
And here I am again, late for morning prayers in the Church of Another Immaculate Weekday. My sixth of seven meditations. I’ve been reading a book out of Britain called A Good Childhood: Searching…
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Wilbur at the Y (by David Yezzi)
Richard Wilbur gave a splendid reading at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y last night. After a knockout selection of poems new and old, he capped the evening with a bit…
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“Women’s Handbags” [by Jillian Brall]
Women’s Handbags In a documentary on women’s handbags I saw a few years ago, it was mentioned that uterus is the Latin word for not only uterus, but also for bag. It was not…
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Under Lorca’s Spell? Two Contemporary Women Poets from Spain [by Sharon Dolin]
The modern fountain in Fuente Vaqueros, Lorca's birthplace, commemorating those killed in the Spanish Civil War, with a pensive Lorca presiding on top Here are selections from two Spanish poets who are women—and are…
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“The Dylan Watch” (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
In this post, I want to offer an alternative way of viewing three songs on Dylan’s album Highway 61 Revisited. Those songs can be seen as a dialogue between different parts of Dylan’s self.…
