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Soulmates (by Mitch Sisskind)
‘She’s my f–king soulmate, dude!’ — Alex Rodriguez, quoted in US magazine. Uriah the Hittite, at left, with with King David Many people are confused about what’s going…
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Barry Schwabsky on Jess
In the June 23 issue of The Nation, Barry Schwabsky has an excellent piece on the collage artist Jess. (You can read the first several paragraphs here.) Narkissos, never finished, "its innumerable details so…
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From “Urban Renewal” (by Major Jackson)
from Urban Renewal XVI. What of my fourth grade teacher at Reynolds Elementary,who weary after failed attempts to set to memorynames strange and meaningless as grains of dirt aroundthe mouthless, mountain caves at Bahrain…
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The Inimitable Wang Ao, 王敖的诗 (Eleanor Goodman)
Let’s say you’re working on a book of translations of contemporary Chinese poetry. And because you must’ve behaved like an angel in your last life, you find a collaborator in the form of a…
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“The Proud Beggar” [by Tom Disch]
The Proud Beggar Am I happy to have livedWhen and where I didAmerica The 20th centuryI've often said soGrateful anyhow for my good luckBut I'll be happier soonTo have shed both when and whereMy…
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The Kalashnikover Rebbe: “Why do you carry a gun?” (by Mitch Sisskind)
This is one of the first clips I did and I wish I’d done a better job of it. It was going to be on another topic but before we started my "co-star" expressed…
