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On Being Set to Music [by Lloyd Schwartz]
My professional life for nearly four decades has consisted mainly of veering back and forth between poetry and music. In 1994, when I received a big award for my writing about classical music, I…
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V. To China: Books from the Sky [by Sarah Howe]
a small jar of night a thousand frontiers carrying him the sky of old age continues the firing in the kiln continues arranging this pot plant lamplight a glazed hand refines a blue…
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IV. To China: Possession Point [by Sarah Howe]
…The sour tear-like orange was there like a clove of…
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III.To China: The Library Cave [by Sarah Howe]
[My apologies – after a gruelling flight from London to Beijing yesterday (a journey I’d made in the opposite direction a few days before, coming home for a dear friend’s wedding), I found myself…
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II. To China: Du Fu’s Cottage [by Sarah Howe]
If I could get a mansion with a thousand, ten thousand rooms, A great shelter for all the world’s scholars, together in joy, Solid as a mountain, the elements could not move it. Oh!…
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A Couple of Swells out for a Stroll on a Sunday in NYC
Richard Howard and David Lehman. Sunday, February 7, 2015, 8th Street between 5th & MacDougal. photo (c) Stacey Harwood-Lehman
