A few days later she sent me those poems; a fair sample of her production is the kind of stuff that émigré rhymsterettes wrote after Akhmatova: lackadaisical little lyrics that tiptoed in more or less anapaestic tetrameter & sat down rather heavily with a wistful sigh #Nabokov24

Great photo of Lisa. Miss her, too.

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Toibin on Baldwin. www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

The Pitch of Passion | Colm Tóibín

I read James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain just after my eighteenth birthday, at a time when I presumed that my Catholic upbringing would soon mean

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This swamp has been inhabited by various cultures of humans for 13,000 years, including runaway slaves: www.thevintagenews.com/2016/11/23/d...

Disclosed: the snake-infested, mosquito-ridden hell where runaway slaves established sanctuary | The Vintage News

Archaeologists have discovered secrets about America’s largest territory for runaway slaves. They lived in a secretive community deep inside the North

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John Cale - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

John Cale performs "Guts" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded December 5, 2012.Songs:You Know More Than I KnowDecember RainsI Wanna Talk To YouGutsHost: DJ El ...