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Stravinsky: “I surround myself with obstacles. .”
Albert Gleizes, Portrait of Igor Stravinsky, 1914, Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 114.3 cm. Muséum of Modern Art Collection "My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have…
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Photographer Sarah Meunier lays bare quarantine in “le moment bizarre”
“Day 1” Quarantaine/Le Confinement mis à nu ©Sarah Meunier Ami entends-tu le vol noir des corbeaux sur nos plaines/… C'est nous qui brisons les barreaux des prisons / …Motivés, motivés/ Il faut rester motivés!/…
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“Dark Side of Time” [by Lewis Warsh, 9 Nov 1944 – 15 Nov 2020]
Dark Side of Time Time is the solution in which the livingand the dead confer—there’s no other place for usor them and there’s no other place to be(except where we are), putting our feet…
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Elizabeth Bishop and the Grateful Dead [by Jeffrey Harrison]
(San Francisco, 1968-69) Whether she ever saw them perform we don’t know,but she did go to a Janis Joplin show,and Thom Gunn’s account of smoking a joint with herbackstage at a group reading…
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“The New York School of Beauty” [by Mary Maxwell]
The New York School of Beauty The man who cut James Schuyler’s hair also cuts my hair.I once heard Schuyler read at the Ninety Second Street Y. A large man, he sat at a…
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“To Mr. Lawrence” [by John Milton]
Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day; what…
