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Next Line, Please: We Need a New Word [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Last week on Next Line, Please, David Lehman proposed a list poem that included three out of the following four words: “listless,” “invent,” “Tory,” and “catalogue.” The contributors to the column went above and beyond,…
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Terence Winch’s “Known Universe” isn’t caviar to the general [by David Lehman]
Terence Patrick Winch's new book is The Known Universe and it is now Michael Lally's new favorite book. The Known Universe should become better known because it is universally appealing. Among my favorites is…
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Ex-Basketball Playter [by John Updike]
Pearl Avenue runs past the high-school lot,Bends with the trolley tracks, and stops, cut offBefore it has a chance to go two blocks,At Colonel McComsky Plaza. Berth’s GarageIs on the corner facing west,…
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It Might as well Be Spring [by DL]
I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm, / I'm as jumpy as a puppet on a string. . . Dick Haymes's version is my favorite, and Dennis Potter did great things with…
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J. D. McClatchy as Editor: “Uncensored Note to Auden” [by Jane Mayhall]
In a year of losses we lost a mainstay of the poetry scene yesterday when J. D. McClatchy (pictured at left, with James Merrill) succumbed after a long bout with cancer.…
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Emerson on “Compensation”
<<<And yet the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems…
