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SIX PLATES FROM *PEARLS BEFORE SWINE*, BY ROBERT FERNANDEZ
[i] [ii] [iii] [iv] [v] [vi] [i] “Album Zutique” Text: “The Album Zutique was a communal journal for the poets and artists with whom Rimbaud associated while living in Paris….They called themselves Zutistes, a word coined from…
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Sherman Alexie has a great new poem (in APR)
The new APR (July / August 2012) also has stunning work by poets Catherine Barnett, Elaine Equi, and Dara Wier. The issue, whether by design or not, has compelling evidence of the vitality of…
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“Supernatural Love” [by Gjertrud Schnackenberg]
My father at the dictionary stand Touches the page to fully understand The lamplit answer, tilting in his hand His slowly scanning magnifying lens, A blurry, glistening circle he suspends Above the word 'Carnation'.…
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AN INTERVIEW, VIDEO PIECE, AND POEM FROM NICK TWEMLOW [ROBERT FERNANDEZ]
The following interview with film-maker, poet, and editor Nick Twemlow took place in mid-June of 2012 in Iowa City. Nick’s first poetry collection, Palm Trees, is forthcoming (along with the poet Joel Craig’s first…
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“Young Blue Eyes: Frankie in the Forties” [by David Lehman]
Back in January 2008, when Dwight Garner was editing the "Living with Music" blog for the New York Times, I got to write a column on my top twenty Sinatra tracks from the 1940s,…
