{"id":141659,"date":"2019-12-31T13:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=141659"},"modified":"2019-12-17T17:41:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T22:41:16","slug":"redux-revolve-on-the-past-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/31\/redux-revolve-on-the-past-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Revolve on the Past Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re resolving to read even more of our archive in the New Year. Read on for Octavio Paz\u2019s Art of Poetry interview<\/a>, Rachel Cusk\u2019s \u201cFreedom<\/a>,\u201d and Catherine Davis\u2019s poem \u201cThe New Year\u2019s Burden<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not\u00a0subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0The Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0and read the entire archive? You\u2019ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door\u2014and if you subscribe via our\u00a0special bundle<\/a>, you\u2019ll get a tote bag, too! And don\u2019t forget to listen to\u00a0Season 2<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0The Paris Review Podcast<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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Octavio Paz, The Art of Poetry No. 42<\/a>
\nIssue no. 119 (Summer 1991)<\/em><\/p>\n

I am very fond of fireworks. They were a part of my childhood. There was a part of the town where the artisans were all masters of the great art of fireworks. They were famous all over Mexico. To celebrate the feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe, other religious festivals, and at New Year\u2019s, they made the fireworks for the town. I remember how they made the church fa\u00e7ade look like a fiery waterfall. It was marvelous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Freedom<\/a>
\nBy Rachel Cusk
\nIssue no. 217 (Summer 2016)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s it called,\u201d Dale said, \u201cwhen you have one of those bloody great blinding flashes of insight that changes the way you look at things?\u201d<\/p>\n

I said I wasn\u2019t sure: a few different words sprang to mind.<\/p>\n

Dale twitched his paintbrush irritably.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something to do with a road,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Road to Damascus, I said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a road to Damascus moment,\u201d he said. \u201cLast New Year\u2019s Eve, of all times. I bloody hate New Year\u2019s. That was part of it, realizing that I bloody hated New Year\u2019s Eve.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The New Year\u2019s Burden<\/a>
\nBy Catherine Davis
\nIssue no. 21 (Spring\u2013Summer 1959)<\/em><\/p>\n

I will not, though I would, resolve,
\nAs the New Year\u2019s Eve comes on,
\nTo do, not do, review, revolve
\nOn the past year, how it has gone,
\nTaking not all, but still enough
\n(Seeing I had not much to lose)
\nOf what, for all my falling off,
\nMight have been mine, as then, to use:
\n….<\/span>But if I cast off heaviness,
\n….<\/span>This is my burden, none the less \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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