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On the Water, Finally [by Cate Marvin]
(Ed note: I read this post by Cate Marvin on facebook and thought it too much fun not to share. Cate generously agreed to let me post it here. Cate is the author of…
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Romulus and Remus (for Paul Violi) [by David Lehman]
Look for Remus in the index of a book And you are bound to get “See Romulus” Which is perfectly logical but makes me wonder About indexes, or indices, and why I prefer the…
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Aphrodisiacal Nomenclatures: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Catherine Bowman’s Can I Finish, Please?
Can I Finish, Please?Catherine BowmanFour Way Books, 2016 Catherine Bowman’s newest collection, Can I Finish, Please?, continues to deliver the wicked, opulent, dazzling, and savory poems that have been the hallmark of her first…
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On Michel Houellebecq’s “Submission” [by David Lehman]
Michel Houellebecq It could be because I have read the work of too many self-absorbed novelists who favor such sentences as these: "The next day I got up early and shut myself in the…
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On leaving, Austerlitz, destiny, prophecy & the Great Wheel
When I get to sobbing out “Look at me, curse you all!”, when I get all squinty about the eyes, when I get to reproaching life’s way in the grayness of the long-drawn shadows…
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Discoveries from The Yearbook V [by M. Fitzgerald]
Simeon’s Osby’s name, on the other hand, brought up a wealth of intriguing information from the genealogical site. He was born on May 15 1909. In the 1920 census, he is listed as the…
