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Old Year, New Year … World of Dew
This from a fine, poetry-rich article by Stefany Anne Golberg over at The Smart Set: Some people focus on the passing Old Year rather than the New — English people, for instance, who are nostalgic by nature, as opposed to, say, American people, who do not enjoy the past as much because they have got so little of it, and erase what they do have as soon as they can.Read More
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Seeing Through the TV Screen to Japan Circa 1810*
(after Issa) hazy moon in steamfrom the cracked nuclear plant—ghost-light passing through ____________________________________* 1810 is a guess: the date of Issa’s poem is unknown.Read More