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From My Diary – February 2020 No. 2 [by Lera Auerbach]
Home © Lera Auerbach, Oil on Canvas (1) The doctors warned me that I might get depressed after the surgery.Before the surgery, my tumor was producing five times more cortisol than normal. After the…
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Writing Prompts for April’s Poem-a-Day Challenge (by Nin Andrews)
It’s April, the cruelest month, and here in Virginia the rain has been falling so steadily, I am worried it will never dry out again. I feel soaked to the bone. Brain-foggy, too. Socked…
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Vastness, Immensity (by Mitch Sisskind)
1. I want you to imagine a yacht the length Of three football fields filled with the topTwo hundred and fifty celebrities from The worlds of music, movies, sports,Silicon Valley and Wall Street sailing Around the world…
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Wit and Metaphor in George Herbert’s ‘Love (III)” [by David Lehman]
Like John Donne and Gerard Manley Hopkins, though not as flamboyant as the first or as metrically inventive as the second, George Herbert proved that devotional poetry can generate high intellectual excitement. Born in…
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New Trilling Essay the Talk of the Town
The emergence of a previously unknown and uncharacteristically fiery essay by Lionel Trilling is all the buzz in intellectual circles. Our stringers at far-flung campuses report the excitement at faculty clubs and academic production…
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Much better late than never. . .a (more or less) favorable review
Today (3/31/21), Caesura posted Inspector Watt's review of Poems in the Manner of, and in a curiously contrarian way I am pleased that in the poetry business, in which it sometimes seems that business…
