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Letters to James Schuyler
The artist and writer Joe Brainard and the poet James Schuyler, both central figures in the New York School of poets and ...
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Dreaming Within the Text: Notebooks on Herman Melville
The dream in literature must be a region of wonder, separate from yet reflexive to the rest of the text. It must be the dream ...
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The Psychopathology of Everyday Café Life in Freud’s Vienna
Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays, and poetry. She is the author of several novels including August Blue, Hot Milk and ...
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My Childhood Toy Poodles
In middle school, when no one was home, I would lay facing Binky as he lay flat on his side on the carpet. ‘I love you,’ I would say.” ...
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Women Singing in the Deep Sea
They are far from shore. Foam-glittering , they rise from the waves ...
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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 Hawk's Cry in Autumn
Wind from the northwestern quarter is lifting him high above ...
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The Color of Neville Brand's Front Teeth
mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.
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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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Portfolio: Stefan Michal's Suitcase
The character of Stefan Mihal has functioned partly as a red herring and partly as a doppelganger for photographer Michals. His name derives from Michals’ middle and last names in their original Czech ...