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The New York School Diaspora (Part Thirty-Four) The Fizz of the Theatrical: Mark Halliday and Martin Stannard [by Angela Ball]
THE BUCKET AND THE RAIN [Scene: a farmyard. It is raining cats and dogs. A metal bucket stands out in the rain, three yards from the barn.] The Bucket [muttering to himself]: Why did…
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F. R. Leavis on Keats: A Close Reading
<<< Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose, Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave, Or on the wealth of globèd peonies… The 'globèd' gives the sensation of the hand…
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Lewis Saul, Guest Author
This week we welcome back Lew Saul as a guest author.Lewis Saul is a composer from Tucson, Arizona.He studied with Nadia Boulanger and writes about music and film. Look for him in this space…
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Richard Vargas: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_________________________________________ 13 Angels Rising “Starting early in February investigators recovered 13 sets of skeletal remains from a once-remote section…
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Five Years On: The Day JA Died
[Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, and John Ashbery – (Photographer Unknown, circa 1965)] “….exquisite mind cartoons that could be heard with eyes closed, the voice perfectly ordinary with the slight edge of extravagant conversational camp,…
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On John Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) [by Geoffrey Young]
It’s four a.m. on Labor Day 2017 and a voice on the BBC radio says as I lay in bed awake that John Ashbery died yesterday in Hudson, NY. He turned ninety a month…
