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Was Voltaire Great? Ask Nero Wolfe
At the dinner table, and with coffee in the office afterwards, Wolfe resumed on the subject he had started at lunch—Voltaire. The big questions was, could a man be called great on account…
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Parodies [by Nin Andrews with Nicole Santalucia]
I thought I would close this week of blogging with the amazing Nicole Santalucia with a few parodies . . . Posted by Nin Andrews on November 12, 2011 at 08:02 AM | Permalink
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Jack Benny’s Violin [by James Cummins and David Lehman]
Jack Benny’s Violin I have always wanted to write a poem called Jack Benny’s violin.How often have I begun a poem with that title.At a key moment a mugger intercepts our man in sinwith…
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The Cowboy [by James Tate]
The Cowboy Someone had spread an elaborate rumor about me, that I wasin possession of an extraterrestrial being, and I thought I knew whoit was. It was Roger Lawson. Roger was a…
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“Whitman in the Eleventth Grade” [by David Lehman]
The following, part I of "Opening Shot," was written at the request of Sandy McIntosh, the brilliant and visionary publisher of Marsh Hawk Press:<<<In high school I read “Song of Myself” in a course…
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Shakespare’s sonnet #33
Full many a glorious morning have I seenFlatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,Kissing with golden face the meadows green,Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;Anon permit the basest clouds to rideWith ugly rack on his…
