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Marie-Thérèse Allier, literary talk, dance-performance criticism [by Tracy Danison]
Caroline Breton in “Figures” by Charles Chemin, on stage at Ménagerie de Verre, Etrange cargo program 2022. Photo © Ysé-Ysé-Rouy-Giraaud In an obituary for Marie-Thérèse Allier, the founder and leader of the iconic Ménagerie…
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“Poem with Horse and RB” [by Daniel Lawless]
This is the poem where no one drowns in summerOr propranolol, gyves or sluices or falls in love with Sister Wendy.No one pisses off a dock, no one is pixilatedOr doll-like, no one gets high and…
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Angell of the Basepaths Fondly Remembered [by David Lehman]
From an encyclopedia article on Roger Angell: << In a Newsweek article titled "Angell of the Base Paths," David Lehman made note of what he called Angell's "poetic resonance" and quoted Angell: "If I was…
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Dante, Near and Far [by Robert P. Baird]
There is much strange in La Vita Nuova, the libello or “little book” that Dante composed fifteen or so years before starting in on the Divine Comedy. Take, for starters, the form of the book, an alternation of prose and poetry…
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Squib 478 [by Alan Ziegler]
For Roger Angell (1921-2022) Long ago, on the off-chance I might run into the Devil at the Crossroads, Robert Johnson's Crossroads …
