May 2013
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“While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in a...”
– Billy Collins
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“Writers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your brains.”
– John Dos Passos
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“Memoir’s not an easy form. It’s not for beginners, which is unfortunate, as it...”
– Hilary Mantel - By the Book - NYTimes.com (via alexanderchee)
JOAO PAULO, PETER EPSTEIN & RICARDO DIAS -...
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“The comforts
of language
are true
and deep;”
– Mary Oliver, from “If You Say It Right, It Helps the Heart to Bear It” in Evidence
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A More Ordinary Poet
While the fascination with Dickinson’s biography and the complexity of her words have long kept her readers, critics, and poetic inheritors engaged in unraveling her, Dickinson criticism has recently shown a marked interest in combining these two challenges—the biographical and the textual—in order to study Dickinson’s material trace: a real woman whose life took place on paper.
Read Gillian...
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Atar Arad plays Johann Sebastian Bach’s (Zoltán...
Sergei Rachmaninoff plays Rachmaninoff’s “Lilacs”...
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ANTHONY COLEMAN TRIO - Sephardic Tinge
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“In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.”
– May Sarton
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'Mañana en la ventana', de T. S. Eliot
© Wolf Suschitzky. Prinsengracht, Amsterdam, 1934
Mañana en la ventana
Hacen tintinear los platos del desayuno en las cocinas de los sótanos,
y junto a los pisoteados bordes de la calle
me percato de las húmedas almas de las criadas
germinando alicaídas en las cancelas de acceso.[[MORE]]
Las olas marrones de niebla me lanzan como monedas al aire
caras torcidas...
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