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Karlheinz Stockhausen [by Lewis Saul]
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) would not make many Top Ten Composers of All Time list — but he makes mine! I first encountered his music when I was 15 (1967), and I knew the tingling…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Forty-One): Bob Hicok [by Angela Ball]
Civilization, as I understand it To pee or not to pee sitting or standing is never a question, sitting whenever possible on a toilet in the Pantheon a floor above Marie Curie's body…
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Happy birthday, David Shapiro, author of “January”
David Shapiro wrote: at 8:42pm David, please take the test I left out in the rain.Freud's the name, theory's the game, lying on the couch seems inane,free association is the main, transference too is…
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Tom Mandel: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Between Past and Future I. (In the academy: a conversation between master and student) Rabbi, when will the Messiah come? Why do you ask me? Go ask him. But Rabbi,…
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Maxine Sullivan welcomes the new year
Loch Lomond ("you take the high road, and I'll take the low road, and I'll be in Scotland afore ye") A Hundred Years from Today ("so laugh and sing, / make love the king,…
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“New Year’s Day” [by Billy Collins]
New Year’s Day Everyone has two birthdaysaccording to the English essayist Charles Lamb,the day you were born and New Year’s Day— a droll observation to mull overas I wait for the tea water to…
