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Tiny Houses Spacious as Mansions
As with my previous Peter Handke post, I’m sharing enough of this remarkable collection by Samuel Menashe to give a sense of his work without giving away too much. I first encountered Menashe several years ago, when I volunteered to record books for the Colorado Talking Book Library. My first assignment was unenviable: a rather standard textbook focused on reading and interpreting poetry.Read More
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Notice: Kay Ryan is POTUS
I have to admit I don’t know enough about Kay Ryan’s work to celebrate or complain about her elevation to Poet Laureate of the United States (a.k.a, POTUS). Ron Silliman chooses to complain, seeing Ryan as “the 47th consecutive School of Quietude poet to hold the position in its 71 year history”; that is, he spins her like a grindstone to sharpen his favorite axe.Read More