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Joni Mitchell [by Lewis Saul]
Yes, lyricists and poets are different species. But for me, Joni has always been both. I like her early albums, but they lack gravitas — in both the compositions and lyrics. Beginning in 1974,…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Eight): Anthony McCann [by Angela Ball]
Deseret for John Ashbery Out here someone else is thinking of you,turning now towards you, to the westand away. Your table has been set—and that’s scary, why not?But the nominations have begun and soon…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Eight): Anthony McCann [by Angela Ball]
Deseret for John Ashbery Out here someone else is thinking of you,turning now towards you, to the westand away. Your table has been set—and that’s scary, why not?But the nominations have begun and soon…
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The Boy from the Garden: Review of “Timothy Green” [by Joe Lehman]
Lin Manuel-Miranda in The Odd Life of Timothy Green Disney’s The Odd Life of Timothy Green deserves credit where credit is due, yet leaves its viewer with a feeling of incompleteness in that it doesn’t…
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The Boy from the Garden: Review of “Timothy Green” [by Joe Lehman]
Lin Manuel-Miranda in The Odd Life of Timothy Green Disney’s The Odd Life of Timothy Green deserves credit where credit is due, yet leaves its viewer with a feeling of incompleteness in that it doesn’t…
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On Apollinaire’s Birthday [by David Lehman]
In the heady days leading up to and including the catastrophe of World War I, when Paris was the capital of modern art, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918) stood at the vital center of…