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  • On Being Set to Music [by Lloyd Schwartz]

    February 12, 2016

    My professional life for nearly four decades has consisted mainly of veering back and forth between poetry and music. In 1994, when I received a big award for my writing about classical music, I…

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  • V. To China: Books from the Sky [by Sarah Howe]

    February 12, 2016

    a small jar of night      a thousand frontiers carrying him the sky of old age continues the firing in the kiln continues arranging this pot plant     lamplight a glazed hand refines a blue…

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  • IV. To China: Possession Point [by Sarah Howe]

    February 11, 2016

                                                  …The sour    tear-like orange was there like a clove of…

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  • III.To China: The Library Cave [by Sarah Howe]

    February 10, 2016

    [My apologies – after a gruelling flight from London to Beijing yesterday (a journey I’d made in the opposite direction a few days before, coming home for a dear friend’s wedding), I found myself…

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  • II. To China: Du Fu’s Cottage [by Sarah Howe]

    February 9, 2016

    If I could get a mansion with a thousand, ten thousand rooms, A great shelter for all the world’s scholars, together in joy, Solid as a mountain, the elements could not move it. Oh!…

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  • A Couple of Swells out for a Stroll on a Sunday in NYC

    February 8, 2016

    Richard Howard and David Lehman. Sunday, February 7, 2015, 8th Street between 5th & MacDougal. photo (c) Stacey Harwood-Lehman

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