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

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John Hall Wheelock. Photo: Rowland Scherman.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re peering through windows. Read on for John Hall Wheelock\u2019s Art of Poetry interview<\/a>, an excerpt<\/a> from Gerald Murnane\u2019s Border Districts<\/em>, and Forough Farrokhzad\u2019s poem \u201cWindow<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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John Hall Wheelock, The Art of Poetry No. 21<\/a>
\nIssue no. 67 (Fall 1976)<\/em><\/p>\n

One reason I know it was not my line is I consulted a dictionary to find out that an oriel was a window in a balcony that you could look down from. I had sensed that it was some kind of window, but I didn\u2019t know. I looked it up, afraid that it might be the wrong kind of window and wouldn\u2019t fit into the poem. Now I have taken that line on as my own, yet no one can convince me that I didn\u2019t hear it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Photo: Klapi. CC BY-SA 4.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n

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from<\/em> Border Districts<\/a>
\nBy Gerald Murnane
\nIssue no. 217 (Summer 2016)<\/em><\/p>\n

I have always believed myself to be indifferent to architecture. I hardly know what a gable is or a nave or a vault or a vestry. I would describe my neighborhood church as a symmetrical building comprising three parts: a porch, a main part, and, at the furthest end from the street, a third part surely reserved for the minister before and after services. The walls are of stone painted\u2014or is the correct term rendered<\/em>?\u2014a uniform creamy white. I am so unobservant of such details that I cannot recall, here at my desk, whether the pitched roofs of the porch and the main part are of slate or of steel. The rear part has an almost flat steel roof. The windows aren\u2019t of much interest to me, except for the two rectangular windows of clear glass, each with a drawn blind behind it, in the rear wall of the minister\u2019s room. The main part of the church has six small windows, three on each side. The glass in each of these windows is translucent. If I could inspect it from close at hand, the glass might well seem no different from the sort that I learned to call as a child frosted<\/em> and saw often in bathroom windows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Photo: Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/), via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Window<\/a>
\nBy Forough Farrokhzad, translated by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.
\nIssue no. 233 (Summer 2020)<\/em><\/p>\n

A window for seeing
\nA window for hearing
\nA window like a well
\nthat ends deep in the heart of the earth
\nand opens out into this expanse of recurring blue kindness
\nA window that overfills the tiny hands of loneliness
\nwith its nightly gift: the perfume of generous stars
\nAnd from there one could invite the sun
\nto the geraniums in exile
\nOne window is enough for me \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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