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Celebrating Shirley [by Charles Coe]
I stayed recently on Vermont’s Grand Isle, in the middle of Lake Champlain, a beautiful spot where spring had yet to show its face: cloudy, gray and button-your-overcoat cold, with patches of blue ice…
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Michael Lally Scores Big! [by David Lehman]
Michael Lally scores big with his new collection, Swing Theory, just out from Hanging Loose Press. Lally's fans have come to expect certain pleasures from this gregarious, theatrical, funny, sometimes pugnacious master of the…
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Michael Lally Scores Big! [by David Lehman]
Michael Lally scores big with his new collection, Swing Theory, just out from Hanging Loose Press. Lally's fans have come to expect certain pleasures from this gregarious, theatrical, funny, sometimes pugnacious master of the…
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The Great B-Sides [by David Lehman]
I just heard Bobby Darin sing "Beyond the Sea" — wonderful song translated from the French of Charles Trenet — followed by Sinatra's "Summer Wind." It seems worth pointing out that neither song was…
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The Great B-Sides [by David Lehman]
I just heard Bobby Darin sing "Beyond the Sea" — wonderful song translated from the French of Charles Trenet — followed by Sinatra's "Summer Wind." It seems worth pointing out that neither song was…
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Simile of the day: from a conversation with John Ashbery
I continue to be inspired by Auden, Stevens, Bishop, MacNeice, Marianne Moore, Dylan Thomas, etc., the list goes on, but I don’t often read them. Once something has inspired you, that’s it. Somebody (maybe…
