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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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Antonella Anedda. Photo courtesy of Antonella Anedda Angioy.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re celebrating the return of spring. Read on for Antonella Anedda\u2019s Art of Poetry interview<\/a>, Souvankham Thammavongsa\u2019s short story \u201cThe Gas Station<\/a>,\u201d and Diane di Prima\u2019s poem \u201cSong for Spring Equinox<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not\u00a0subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0The Paris Review<\/em>? You\u2019ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door.<\/p>\n

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Antonella Anedda, The Art of Poetry No. 109<\/a>
\nIssue no. 234 (Fall 2020)<\/em><\/p>\n

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INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n

What is your earliest memory of poetry?<\/p>\n

ANTONELLA ANEDDA<\/p>\n

The first poem I ever heard was by Aleksandr Blok, on the radio in a small village in Sardinia. It\u2019s an early work that begins, \u201cCarried on the breeze,\u2009\/\u2009the Spring\u2019s music drifted from far, far away.\u201d The poem was about space and wind\u2014how the wind breaks open the clouds to reveal a strip of blue sky.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Photo: W.carter. CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Gas Station<\/a>
\nBy Souvankham Thammavongsa
\nIssue no. 228 (Spring 2019)<\/em><\/p>\n

The gas station was on the edge of town, before you hit the interstate. It was bright green like a tennis ball. Easily spotted from miles away. This was where he worked. The gas station man. He came out to pump the gas. He was not beautiful, but she liked looking at him. Grotesque<\/em> seemed right to describe him. It was not yet spring. The white sand in the town still glimmered. The ocean still swelled, wave after wave crashed into shore. There was a chill in the air, but he was shirtless. He had hair all over his chest. Like pubic hair. Messy and wet and shining. It was inappropriate to walk around like that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Abraham Brueghel, Allegory of Spring<\/em>, ca. 1680, oil on canvas, 38 1\/2 x 53 1\/4″. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Song for Spring Equinox<\/a>
\nBy Diane di Prima
\nIssue no. 44 (Fall 1968)<\/em><\/p>\n

It is the first day of spring, the children are singing
\n(they are supposed to be sleeping) the clock is ticking
\nthe cats are waiting for supper, one of them pregnant
\nkittens to herald the spring, nothing is blooming
\nnothing seems to bloom much around farms, just hayfields and corn
\nfarms are too pragmatic, I look at ads
\nfor hydrangea bushes, which I hate they remind me of brooklyn \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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