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In Honor of “The Reb,” Rabbi Maurice Wohlgelernter
Ed note: When I was sixteen, I attended lectures on philosophy (e.g. Martin Buber's brand of existentialism) given by Rabbi Maurice Wohlgelernter at a nearby synagogue on Nagle Avenue in the Inwood secrtion of …
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“The Hard and the Soft”: Catullus 60 [trans. by Susan Brind Morrow]
Catullus 60 has a sort of fairy tale beginning. Like Aslan in The Silver Chair, there is a lion on a mountaintop up in the clearest air,and there is a monster that lives in…
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Daniel Borzutzky: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
___________________________________________ Or (For Isaac) And he took his father to the flame and his father said I am not…
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David Lehman reveals all about his “Astrological Profiles”
Astrological Profiles: a Genre Back in 2008, when the blog of the Best American Poetry was new, and the Internet itself still seemed a novelty, the editors of the blog – quickly getting used…
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Two Poems: “Back from Vacation” and “Ex-Basketball Player” [by John Updike]
Back from Vacation 'Back from vacation', the barber announces,or the postman, or the girl at the drugstore, now tan.They are amazed to find the workaday worldstill in place, their absence having slipped no…
