February 2012
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from Unpacking The Boxes by Donald Hall
It was a letdown returning to classrooms and faculty meetings, to office hours and papers and cocktails after the game. From six to eight in the morning it was still poetry, and I finished my third book of poems. Sometimes it was hard to get started. To warm up, I began a comic blank-verse narrative— a few lines before going back to free verse— out of a medieval fabliau. I found the...
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A Few Words on the Soul by Wislawa Szymborska
A Few Words on the Soul
by Wislawa Szymborska
translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh
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We have a soul at times.
No one’s got it non-stop,
for keeps.
Day after day,
year after year
may pass without it.
Sometimes
it will settle for awhile
only in childhood’s fears and raptures.
Sometimes only in astonishment
that we are old.
It rarely lends a hand...
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"We have a soul at times. No one’s got it...
Wislawa Szymborska, Nobel-Winning Polish Poet, Dies at 88
By RAYMOND H. ANDERSON, The New York Times
Published: February 1, 2012
Wislawa Szymborska, a gentle and reclusive Polish poet who won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, died on Wednesday in Krakow, Poland. She was 88.
Wislawa Szymborska with her Nobel Prize medal in 1996.
The cause was lung cancer, said David A. Goldfarb, the...
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"Yeti, down there we've got Wednesday, bread and...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/her-secretary-says-that-polands-1996-nobel-winning-poet-wislawa-szymborska-has-died-at-88/2012/02/01/gIQAzfFMiQ_story.html
Poland’s 1996 Nobel winning poet Wislawa Szymborska has died at 88
By Associated Press, Published: February 1
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s 1996 Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, whose simple words and playful verse...
January 2012
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“Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat,...”
– Jeannette Winterson (via debaucherie)
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December 2011
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The Rumpus Interview With Marie Calloway →
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WatchHave some music-gifts from the brokedy ones! Merry Jewmas, Happy Slutmikah, Good Solstice, and may you have a very meta post-modern pre-apocalyptic New Year’s— we can guarantee that if you join us at the Hynes Convention Center! Walter Sickert’s 2012: An Army of Toys Odyssey at First Night Boston (Feat. Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band, Johnny Blazes and the Pretty...
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November 2011
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Watchagoodbreakfast:
Black Ocean & Walter Sickert present PANDORA’S BOX: two nights of art and mayhem
This little vid kicks off w. ‘Devil’s in the details.’ Enjoy our Batman & The Chocolate Factory shenanery from this past weekend! Thanks for all your documentation, Nabeela! You rule.
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Q and A: How is it that poems can just fail? (the...
The poem can suffer a buoyed listing,
like a swamped canoe;
poor planning—
hitting an iceberg and not enough life boats;
or tidiness, hazardous symmetry,
an initial attempt at the St. Louis Arch off
by damning inches.
The poem can become so fearful and tidy
that it wraps itself in plastic slip covers.
The poem can marry Yoko Ono.
It can fail by doing its job,
as if this is...
October 2011
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newmusicbox.org review by Matthew Guerrieri /...
WHY ARE THOSE GIRLS SO LOUD it’s ‘cos we’re jewish’s first press/review and it’s a generous/smashing one at that! i’ll take it. There’s a Cloud Club penumbrella upon us Boston vaudevillians according to this chap… girlssoloud:
by Mary Bichner New England’s Prospect: When the Working Day Is Done
By Matthew Guerrieri on October 27, 2011 on...
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“If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take...”
– Oscar Wilde, Dorothy Parker (via apiphile)
Another Dorothy Parker life-moment today. It is in the ether. She is my spirit guide? Enough rope.
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September 2011
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