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On Coming to America [by Anne Lehman (1915-2009), as told to David Lehman]
David and Anne Lehman, in Vienna, 1998 When I was born the third child to my parents, they were not overjoyed, since they already had a daughter and a son. But my mother told…
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The Most Underrated Poet in America
<<< I remember a poet's writing to me several years back, You are the most underrated poet in the country. But then, he added, that's better than being the most overrated poet in the…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Nineteen): Amy Gerstler [by Angela Ball]
Night Life How can this equal rest or peace, this garble of gasps, snuffles,and horse-like snorts? His lips flutter as though he’s blowingbubbles, his moans so choked he must be drowning…or arehis legs being…
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A Woman’s Laughter [by Charles Coe]
On a recording of the Bill Evans trio,Live at the Village Vanguard,late June '61, during a slow, haunting versionof "I Loves You Porgy," at the quietest moment,in the background, soft but clear, a woman's…
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Der Blaue Reiter [by Wassily Kandinsky]
Cover of Der Blaue Reiter by Wassily Kandinsky (1911) The blue rider rode on the blue horse Franz Marc painted in 1911.World War I killed Marc and returned Kandinsky to Russiauntil 1921 when Walter Gropius…
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Emily Jungmin Yoon: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_____________________________________________________________________ Say Grace In my country our shamans were women and our gods multiple until white people brought an ecstasy of rosaries and our…
