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“Platonic Love” [by Curt Anderson]
We dine at Adorno and return to my Beauvoir.She compliments me on my Bachelard pad.I pop in a Santayana CD and Saussure back to the couch.On my way, I pull out two fine Kristeva…
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Shema [poem by Primo Levi]
Shema You who live secureIn your warm housesWho return at evening to findHot food and friendly faces: Consider whether this is a man,Who labours in the mudWho knows no peaceWho fights for a crust…
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Dispatch From A Distance – Hunting Season [by Cara Benson]
Look closely “Rifle’s done.” This from a neighbor I crossed paths with when I was out for a walk and he to shovel out his mailbox. We spoke from opposite sides of the road,…
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A Fashion Line Based on Joe Brainard’s Work
Ron Padgett sent out this announcement: 1/25/21 The Madrid-based fashion house of Loewe has a young designer named Jonathan Anderson who is so crazy about Joe's work that he has based an entire line…
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“Days of 1896” [by C. P. Cavafy]
Days of 1896 He became completely degraded. His erotic tendency,condemned and strictly forbidden(but innate for all that), was the cause of it:society was totally prudish.He gradually lost what little money he had,then his social…
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Sestina for Harry (Mathews) [by Joseph McElroy, with notes]
SESTINA for HARRY And for Marie Not sure you’re here or where in solitarySplendor. Truth, our life and letters not a wreck Waiting to happen quite yet, your absence less rawThan real — dark,…