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Professor Frake [by Molly Arden]
Professor Frake Is a hard-ass; takes pridein the low grades he gives; publishes essays; gives offense;carries the lamp of a seeker of truthin a benighted age of compulsory bullshit;but, hell, this guy’s a fake, and…
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Brueghel’s Icarus and Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” [by David Lehman]
Landscape With the Fall of Icarus’ (c. 1560s), by Pieter Brueghel the Elder—the focus of Auden’s final stanza.ROYAL MUSEUMS OF FINE ARTS OF BELGIUM By David Lehman Published in The Wall Street Journal under the heading…
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“Virginity” [by Amy Gerstler]
Virginity Lying down on the rug with someone and getting dustbunnies in your hair. The eloquence of long pauses.Passing notes rather than speaking. A basement foggedwith pot smoke. Trying to read another body via…
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Theme Music: Schubert’s Rosamunde Overture
from "A Good Week for a Birthday" (in The Morning Line by David Lehman): What would I choose as my theme musicif I were the classical music disc jockeymaybe Bernstein’s overture to Candide or…
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John Ashbery’s Typewriter
John Ashbery's typewriter — a wonderful title for a poem, methinks — has turned up at Harvard. As the Harvard Gazette reports: <<<John Ashbery [pictured left with Jane Freilicher] dove head-first into poetry after…
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Trollus ex machina: It’s mine and I’ll do what I wanna [by Tracy Danison]
The eye of the storm “That is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” …
