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Ama Codjoe: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________ The Deer Walking alone in a forest, I came upon a deer—this was…
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“Flesh 78” [by Herbert Engelhardt, 1925-2021]
Brancusi hinted itGiacometti stinted it Miró laughed at itDegas choreographed it Bosch hated itBruegel skated it Watteau crêpe de chine covered itManet gape to dine uncovered it Botticelli virgin Spring emergedTitian love-in fling resurged…
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“Caress” [by Ron Padgett]
In a dream I caressed youand when I woke upI caressed the memoryof the dream.I never caressed youin “real life.”I never even wanted tothough I was closeto liking the idea of caressing you.If I…
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Mr. Lucky Didn’t Know Who He Was [by David Lehman]
Cary Grant on location in Paris, France, for Charade, 1963 (Everett Collection) Arguably Hollywood’s handsomest leading man, Cary Grant was a big box-office draw: tall, sophisticated, devilishly debonair in dramas, suitably wacky in screwball…
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John Cowper Powys, 1872-1963 [by Mitch Sisskind]
Though not a Jew himself Powys somehowIntuited Kabbalistic teachings on humiliationThrough his sexual failures and constipationAs we learn in his Autobiography where he alsoSpares us the rodomontadian strutting wherebyLesser writers dramatize their accomplishmentsIn the bathroom…
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Star Black’s Portraits of Poets: from the BAP Gala, 9/25/08
Meghan O'Rourke Richard Howard Lee Upton Laura Cronk and David LehmanJohn Ashbery and Adam Zagajewski All photos by Star Black. Copyright (c) 2008 by Star Black. Adam Zagajewski was reading at NYU that evening,…
