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Em-bodying Poetry [Merle Bachman]
Lately, I've been thinking about bodies. –No, that doesn't mean firm bodies, attractive ones (bodies that make you look over your shoulder or keep you up at night in the dark) but– more in…
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Best and Worst of the Week: “The New Yorker”
From The New Yorker of April 27, 2009 Best sentence of the week: <<Nearly everything Poe wrote, including the spooky stories for which he is best remembered, has this virtuosic, showy, lilting, and slightly…
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Darragh Park’s Cover for Marc Cohen’s “On Maplewood time”
ON MAPLEWOOD TIME by Marc Cohen Publisher (The Groundwater Press, Hudson, New York) "I won't pretend that the trees were rooted in the air, goes a line in Marc Cohen's 12 Ton Bridge. Had…
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Dostoevski predicts end of World War I!
Dostoevski's natal chart reveals him to be a Scorpio with Sagittarius rising. This is scary enough, but his moon is in Gemini, so watch out! Born on November 11, 1821, in Moscow, Dostoesvki suffered…
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Darragh Park’s Cover for Marc Cohen’s “Mecox Road”
MECOX ROAD by Marc Cohen Cover design and art by Darragh Park The Groundwater Press, New York << Cohen's poetry is a kind of highly polished, metaphysical poetry (but firmly rooted in the realities…
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Breathing Space [by Merle Bachman]
My dove is home, her breast is warm, my dove is home…. A song by Neko Case, ricocheting around my head. Lots of references to tornadoes on her new album; fortunately, the weather here…
