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Susan Barba: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
__________________________________________________________________________ Player Piano My face is a case study in gravity. A face study. A grave. Effaced, I introduce myself by name, a quippy delegate, ceci Susan, this lifelong stand-in.…
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How People Reacted to Jackson Pollock’s Paintings [by David Lehman]
Abstract art seemed to fly in the face of good old American horse-sense. The standard response to a reproduction of a Pollock [pictured above] was, "Why, my five-year-old could do that." Or, “It looks…
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“Bright Star” [by John Keats]
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike…
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When I Was Straight, A Tribute to Maureen Seaton, Edited by Dustin Brookshire [by Nin Andrews]
Tears in Sleep All night the cocks crew, under a moon like day,And I, in the cage of sleep, on a stranger's breast,Shed tears, like a task not to be put away—-In the false…
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“Love’s Philosophy” [by Percy Bysshe Shelley]
The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things…
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On being human: dancer, choreographer Xavier Lot talks about Alice Davazoglou’s “Danser ensemble” [By Tracy Danison]
“Danser ensemble” dance performance by Alice Davazoglou. Photo © L’échangeur-CDCN Carreau du Temple has some of the best dance performance programming in Paris. Its annual Festival Everybody, from 14- 18 February in 2025, is…
