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The World in Translation (Eleanor Goodman)
Hello all! I’ll be blogging for the next few days about contemporary Chinese poetry, translation, and the literary scene in China. I’m posting this week from Boston. Unfortunately. Not that I don’t love Boston…
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Music and Poems – (by Lloyd Schwartz)
June 28, 2008: Overture(Continuing the story about my poems being set to music by the composition fellows at Tanglewood) I drove out to Tanglewood on June 27 to attend a performance by the Mark…
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Henry David Thoreau (by Jenny Factor)
It’s the Fourth of July, and I feel about as American as Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), one of my heroes. This morning, I’ve been reading Walden. So I’d like to set out his words…
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High as the Sky on the Fourth of July
1. Oil prices2. Corn prices3. Prices in general I hope you have a few to add to the list of a more personally satisfying nature. As for me, July is my favorite month, the…
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Breslin and Buffett: “To thine own self be true” (by Mitch Sisskind)
I got turned on to Jimmy Breslin when I read his novel Table Money many years ago. Later, I read his biography of Damon Runyon — a real masterpiece in my opinion. I was…
