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Grace Cavalieri: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________________________________________ The Sound That Haunting Makes I'd like to talk about how the day went, talk as we used to do, not with singing words, but smaller celebrations gathered until we noticed the…
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Smelling Beyond Words [by Lera Auerbach]
На птичьих правах – Ink on Paper by Lera Auerbach There is a phrase in Russian, ‘na ptich'ikh pravakh’, having birds' rights. To live ‘na ptich'ikh pravakh’ means not having proper rights to occupy space (i.e.,…
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“Young Blue Eyes: Frankie in the Forties” [by David Lehman]
Back in January 2008, when Dwight Garner was editing the "Living with Music" blog for the New York Times, I got to write a column on my top twenty Sinatra tracks from the 1940s,…
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Island [by Vincent Katz]
When someone looks at the sea,Not when they are thinking vindictivelyAbout fame and why they didn’t getTheir fair share, how to get back at Someone—then, the mind is free,Momentarily, the human ability toLook and…
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WORKING SPACE: WAITING ROOMS [by Jennifer Clarvoe]
In January, I flew to see the Vija Celmins exhibition at the Met Breuer – the last flight, the last exhibition, as it so happened, of the year. Here's the closest thing to a…
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The Great Hippopotamus (by Mitch Sisskind)
Danny was a unique character having been The youngest prisoner in San Quentin for A period of time during his overall 25 years Of incarceration in Q and in other California Institutions of…
