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The Grimacer of Beaune
It was in Beaune that I saw the wildest grimacer of my life. We’d been warned the place was overrun with tourists, by a ...
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Kevin Killian’s Amazon Reviews, Part 1
From Selected Amazon Reviews, to be published by Semiotext (e) this month.
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The Power Plant Sestina
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica ...
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The Black Venus: For Max Ernst
of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...
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Photograph of My Father
Above the crescent of a colonnade. And he is standing on a gravel path Between turned-up rows of empty flower beds.
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Dark Secrets, Erotic Words and Glances
the castigations and the bountiful.
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When the Movie Theatre Closed
below and above them with pink.
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Women Singing in the Deep Sea
They are far from shore.
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Portfolio: Margaret Finds a Box
In his photographic sequences, Duane Michals has expanded the possibilities of his medium. While most photo- graphs deal with static appearances, Michals' depend on trans- formations and ...
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The Color of Neville Brand's Front Teeth
mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.
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The Jewish Furrier Explains the Search for Beauty
Remember where I came from. Think of a continent of sabled czars. Leave your home. Let exile fill your mouth like the lost language of the child. Understand the reason. A man who would not wear the ...
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Klimt and Schiele Confront the Cunt
turned impotent, and had to be divorced. The nineteenth century, for all its love ...