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Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked\u00a0pieces delivered straight to your inbox every\u00a0Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This week, we bring we bring you Blaise Cendrars\u2019s\u00a0Art of Fiction<\/a>\u00a0interview, in which he remembers the Easter Sunday he wrote\u00a0Les P\u00e2ques \u00e0 New-York<\/em>, one of the founding texts of modern poetry;\u00a0Leonard Gardner\u2019s story of summer\u2019s promise, \u201cChrist Has Returned to Earth and Preaches Here Nightly<\/a>\u201d; and\u00a0Carolyn Kizer\u2019s poem \u201cOn Rising from the Dead<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Blaise Cendrars, The Art of Fiction No. 38<\/a>
\nIssue no. 37 (Spring 1966)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Easter Sunday the library was closed. In the evening I entered a Presbyterian church which was giving an oratorio, Haydn\u2019s\u00a0Creation<\/em>, so said a lighted sign hung to the spire … A\u00a0wretched bishop interrupted the oratorio every five minutes to preach I-know-not-what pious sanctimony and make an appeal to the good hearts of the faithful and, when the oratorio continued, another croaker of a preacher as tiresome as the first entered the stall where I had taken a place, and tried to convert me by surreptitious exhortation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Christ Has Returned to Earth and Preaches Here Nightly<\/a>
\nBy Leonard Gardner
\nIssue no. 35 (Fall 1965)<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Nearing the city limits of Stockton, Ernest and Harry encountered several homemade signs\u2014HAVE YOU BEEN CHOSEN? COULD YOU FACE JUDGMENT\u00a0TODAY<\/em>?\u2014before approaching a large tent sagging next to a wrecking yard. Over the entrance of the tent a banner announced:\u00a0CHRIST HAS RETURNED TO EARTH AND PREACHES HERE NIGHTLY. Harry, a student of advertising, approved it as a good gimmick.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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On Rising from the Dead<\/a>
\nBy Carolyn Kizer
\nIssue no. 22 (Autumn\u2013Winter 1959\u20131960)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Saturday\u00a0noon: the morning of the mind
\nMoves through a mist to breakfast: damp from sleep,
\nRustic and rude, the partial self comes down
\nTo face a frozen summer, self-imposed:
\nThen, as the numb shades lift, becomes aware
\nOf its other half, buried overhead,
\nA corpse in twisted sheets, a foggy portrait
\nSmudged in the bathroom mirror\u2014elegies
\nSung on the nerves of a pillow-muffled phone\u00a0\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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