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Dreaming Within the Text: Notebooks on Herman Melville
By Christopher Bollas“An author, like Melville, needs to dream within the text.”
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Topos
By Matt Broaddus“When I was regional / they let me have hands”
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Letters to James Schuyler
By Joe Brainard“2 glasses of milk with Ovaltine everyday”
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By Ron Veasey“Portraiture has been Veasey’s primary mode for the past four decades. A bright yellow often animates his figures’ teeth and eyes.”
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Mad as only an angel can be
By Sara Gilmore“actually the angel’s already inside / with the groceries, carried them in / in one stupid angel trip”
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Poetry
First Tour of the Old World
By Josephine Baker“They rang all the city bells at full peal to warn the churchgoers that Josephine Baker, the demon of immorality, the Devil herself, had arrived.”
