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Jerome Sala Positively Shines in “Posit” [by David Lehman]
In the December 2016 issue of POSIT, Susan Lewis's magazine, you'll find a Jerome Sala poem that reflects the brilliance of his mind confronting the actualities of culture. In "To 'Content," Jerome takes on…
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Fragments 113-135 from Selected Squibs [by Alan Ziegler]
My paternal grandfather, Philip Ziegler, AKA: Crookedneck, Sam Ziegler, Ziggie, Philip Abrams, Philip Seigel, Philip Zeigler. On November 6, 1916 (four years before my father was born), my grandfather and a crony named Finkel…
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Columbo roasts Sinatra . . .and then Don Rickles does it [by David Lehman]
When Lt Columbia received the invitation to appear on the show, his "wife deposited the telegram in their safety deposit box until we can get it framed." Columbo hands Sinatra a bar napkin and…
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Some Notes on Hitchcock’s Movies [by David Lehman]
Three of Hitchcock's movies are allegories: "The Lady Vanishes" is an allegory of Western reaction to Nazi aggression as Europe crept to the second World War. On the train there is an appeaser and…
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Fragments 103-112 from Selected Squibs [by Alan Ziegler]
I am four, watching two big kids play catch on Essex Street in East New York, Brooklyn. An arm thrusts forward and the ball takes flight, soaring toward the rooftops, loses steam, heading for…
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Story, sensibility & sense: MC Hominal, dance real slow to dance good
“Taxi Dancers” makes waiting for … what? watchable, something reminiscent of Delacroix's harem but with a plain sour rather than saccharine – Photo ©Gregory Batardon I've been waiting up all night/But you never show/You…
