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New Photos of Little Miss “I’m Nobody”! (by Mitch Sisskind)
One thing about Emily Dickinson: she knew how to get into people’s heads! I happen to believe that she completely foresaw the fame that would accrue to her after her death and had everything…
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“Venetian Coda” [by John Koethe]
VENETIAN CODA Sometimes I dream what’s called the male dream:I’m going somewhere not too far away, I’m almost there,When there’s a slight delay—a minor detour of no consequence,But then another, and another, as I…
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Where Thoreau and Livingstone Meet: Lou Netzer and the Rio Beni Health Project [by Ming Holden]
Louis Netzer NOTE: This is not about Mongolia, it’s about Bolivia, but I’m including it because it’s a Reason To Hope. It’s for readers who sometimes feel, as I do, that there is little…
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Three Poems by Khaidav Chilaajav [posted by Ming Holden]
Streams of rain on a spring night Hammer the water of the lake in the gloamingAnd, having entered, lend strength to grass just bornAnd render the fate of new grass so fragrantThe horizon was…
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Journal Excerpts: Notes Toward Editing “Dog of Heaven”, a Book of Mongolian Wolf Legends
Dr. Akim in an, um, unguarded moment March 15, 2008 Things have been quiet on this blog, mainly because I have been working on Dog of Heaven: Truths and Myths of Blue Mongolia’s Blue…
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Notes Toward a Writer in Exile [by Ming Holden]
September 2007 Tumen-Ulzii Bayunmend, Inner Mongolian dissident writer, when he was younger There’s nothing to remind me of how far I still need to go with studies of the Mongolian language like trying to…
