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New and Old in China
We were in Dalian for our first two days here, cosseted in the Five Star Furama hotel. All of the advertising cliches apply: thick terry towels and bathrobes, fluffy eiderdown pillows, luxurious appointments and…
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Film Still Series #67
From the forthcoming film by Bill Hayward, Asphalt, Muscle and Bone, about a man at risk, the persistence of imagination and the impossibility of love. Produced by Bill Hayward and Anna Elman.
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From Dalian (China) with Love
At Dalian University of Foreign Languages on Monday, I read my "Oxford Cento of American Poetry," and invited the students to pick a favorite line and make it the opening line of a poem…
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IncreduLit #2
A friend of mine, inquiring as to the source of the line "So I sign off, wishing I could sing on," received the following reply from the IncreduLit scholarly service: "So I sign off,…
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In Praise of the Middlebrow
Years and years ago, I read an essay by Richard Eberhart, "Will and Psyche in Poetry," and it became something of a touchstone for me in reading poems. As a thumbnail code, it was…
