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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: July 26, 2023
On August 1, Graywolf will publish Roger Reeves’ Dark Days: Fugitive Essays. This is a gift of a book written by a poet with searing intelligence, whose escape into language—OutKast and Sun Ra, Toni…
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“Death, the Theory” [by David Lehman]
Death, the Theory The imp of the perverse was a deceiving elf.The headaches came more oftenwith other blows the pills couldn't soften.I was a fat girl once myself. When I got out of the…
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. . .is the thing with feathers [by Stacey Lehman]
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. — Mignon McLaughlinThe Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 via The American Scholar (Summer, 2008) — sdh
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Shostakovich: Six Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva [by Lewis Saul]
SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri (1906-1975) Six Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, Op. 143a (1973)1. My poems (3:26)2. Such tenderness (3:53)3. Hamlet's dialogue with his conscience (3:23)4. The Poet and the Tsar (1:40)5. No, the drum beat (3:28)6.…
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Sonnet After Milton [by Mitch Sisskind]
Waiting is one of Judaism's great themesAs when Abraham waited to be the fatherOf a great nation which God promised him Or…
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Thomas O’Grady: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________ Grappelli Take It Don’t Mean a Thing as one instance—the version from ’35, with Django swinging…
