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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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Elizabeth Bishop. Photo: Alice Helen Methfessel. Courtesy of Frank Bidart.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re eating our vegetables and celebrating the summer\u2019s bounty. Read on for Elizabeth Bishop\u2019s Art of Poetry interview<\/a>, Alice Munro\u2019s short story \u201cSpaceships Have Landed<\/a>,\u201d and Sue Kwock Kim\u2019s poem \u201cThe Korean Community Garden in Queens<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Elizabeth Bishop, The Art of Poetry No. 27<\/a>
\nIssue no. 80 (Summer 1981)<\/em><\/p>\n

The next day there was a picture in the afternoon paper\u2014they take such things very seriously in Brazil\u2014and the day after that my Brazilian friend went to market again. There was a big covered market with stalls for every kind of comestible, and there was one vegetable man we always went to. He said, \u201cWasn\u2019t that Do\u00f1a Elizabetchy\u2019s picture in the paper yesterday?\u201d She said, \u201cYes, it was. She won a prize.\u201d And he said, \u201cYou know, it\u2019s amazing! Last week Se\u00f1ora (Somebody) took a chance on a bicycle and she<\/em> won! My customers are so lucky!\u201d Isn\u2019t that marvelous?!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Spaceships Have Landed<\/a>
\nBy Alice Munro
\nIssue no. 131 (Summer 1994)<\/em><\/p>\n

Rhea didn\u2019t think they would pay much attention. They were busy and their life was eventful, though the events in it were seasonal and had to do with the vegetables which they sold in town to earn their living. The vegetables, the raspberries, the rhubarb. They hadn\u2019t time for much else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Korean Community Garden in Queens<\/a>
\nBy Sue Kwock Kim
\nIssue no. 148 (Fall 1998)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2026 Each one lit by what it neighbors<\/p>\n

but is not, each tint flaring without a human soul,
\nwithout human rage at its passing. In the summer
\nthere will be scallions, mung-beans, black sesame,
\nmuskmelons, to be harvested into zinc buckets<\/p>\n

and sold at market. How do they live without wanting
\nto live forever? Unlike their gardeners in the old world,
\nwho die for warring dreams and warring heavens,
\nwho stop at nothing, life the one paradise they wanted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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