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Oscar Levant Nails It Again: “A politician is a man who. . .” [by DL]
Oscar Levant, who "knew Doris Day before she was a virgin," defined a politician as a man who will "double-cross that bridge when he gets to it." Has anyone read his book Memoirs of…
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Voices of Mississippi, 1957 (by Mitch Sisskind)
Lyle Ross CrockettUniversity Administrator “Chancellor of the University of Mississippi.”That those five words – or are there six? —Would ever append themselves to my name, (Or is my name the modest appendageTo those words?)…
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One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir by David Lehman [Review by Diane Cameron]
There are many personal stories of cancer. Many self-help stories and many memoirs. And yes, there are even cancer poems. But now we have a book that is both a cancer story and…
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International Poetry Festival: Sunday, Oct 20, 7 PM, School of Visual Arts (NYC)
International Poetry Festival Sunday, October 20, 7 pmSCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS MFA SOCDOC136 West 21st Street, Manhattan Readers to include Vladimir Gandelman, Andrey Gritsman (pictured), Anna Halberstadt, Helga Landauer, David Lehman, Basil Lyoff,…
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Happy 90th Birthday, Richard Howard [by David Lehman]
Happy Birthday, Richard Howard If you’re 84 today that means you were 47 when we metYou came to read poems and give two lecturesOne on “The Art of Digression” the other on “The ArtOf Hesitation” I think but could be…
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Squib 334 [by Alan Ziegler]
TITLE One of my bookshelves contains a novel by the German writer Peter Handke called "The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick"; I read the spine a lot. Although I haven't read the book,…
