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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…
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“General Strike” [by Jim Dolot]
And balagan and Milosz on jstor.Certainly Danny Kaye was The Court Jester. “This day” (Darwin wrote) “I shot me a condor.”Who manages to say no to being quaestor? And in Jerusalem, what is the…
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Auden on Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis, like all pagan scientia, says: "Come, my good man, no wonder you feel guilty. You have a distorting mirror, and that is indeed a very wicked thing to have. But cheer up, For…
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The JFK Murder Mystery (with gumshoe Tony Trigilio) [by David Lehman]
If, like me, you can suspend your usual horror at conspiracy theories in favor of the higher paranoia, and you have a weakness for poetry noir and are convinced that JFK was not assassinated…
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Introducing The Best American Poetry 2018: Guest Editor Dana Gioia [video by Blank Verse Films]
This video was created by Mike Gioia for Blank Verse Films. For more BAP videos, scroll here. For more videos, subscribe to the Blank Verse YouTube channel. — sdl
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Quote of the Day: Suzanne Farrell on sex in ballets [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
Edward Villella and Suzanne Farrell in Bugaku, choreography by George Balanchine, music by Toshiro Mayuzumi In remembering Arthur Mitchell, who died this week, I've been rereading Suzanne Farrell's memoir "Holding on to the Air."…
