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  • I’ve always relied on the kindness of strangers….to buy me presents [by Amy Lawless]

    November 29, 2011

    Greetings from the fortress of solitude, a tiny room on the roof of a building in Brooklyn. Much like the character Blanche DuBois (my arch enemy), I am alone with my thoughts… a misunderstood…

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  • The Influence of Anxiety: David Lehman interviews A. R. Ammons, Part I, October 3, 1992

    November 29, 2011

    Jake Adam York's post of several months ago about studying with with A. R. Ammons during graduate school reminded me of the interview David conducted with Ammons back in the early '90s. I had…

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  • Homage to Sextus Propertius — David Lehman’s Version

    November 29, 2011

    When the masses stop counting on their fingers,     will this noble face perish with the conscience of Rome?Multitudes divide the ill from the well, and millions read     books of quantum hypnosis that…

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  • Q: Do you make a living off your poetry? A: Shucks no! Time magazine interviews John Ashbery

    November 29, 2011

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  • It Isn’t Marilyn Monroe’s Birthday but it will be on June 1st and in the meantime. . .

    November 28, 2011

      "The thing I don't like about being called a 'sex symbol' is that it makes you into a thing. But if I have to be a symbol, I'd rather be a symbol for…

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  • Part II on Bliss and the Mind’s Eye [more for those who like this sort of thing, by Jennifer Michael Hecht]

    November 28, 2011

    Dearest Bleaders, Okay I thought I was done but I need to do a little more. Essay Part One.  Allow me to put two more bits of notion into our meditation on the rule…

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