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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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Hass teaching at St. Mary\u2019s College, ca. 1977. Photo courtesy of the author.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re thinking about fatherhood and Father\u2019s Day. Read on for Robert Hass\u2019s Art of Poetry interview<\/a>, Jonathan Escoffery\u2019s short story \u201cUnder the Ackee Tree<\/a>,\u201d and Louise Erdrich\u2019s poem \u201cBirth<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Robert Hass, The Art of Poetry No. 108<\/a>
\nIssue no. 233 (Summer 2020)<\/em><\/p>\n

When you\u2019re taking care of small children, it\u2019s the one time when you don\u2019t have to ask what the meaning of it all is. The meaning is to get through the day without closing a car door on their fingers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Cradle, 1762, mahogany and white pine, 30 1\/2 x 27 1\/2 x 46″. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Cecilia E. Brinckerhoff, 1924 (24.143).<\/p><\/div>\n

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Under the Ackee Tree<\/a>
\nBy Jonathan Escoffery
\nIssue no. 229 (Summer 2019)<\/em><\/p>\n

You name your second son Trelawny to remind yourself of home. It long enough after you reach that you miss JA bad-bad. You miss walk down a road and pick Julie mango off street side. When you try pick Miami street-side mango, lady come out she house with rifle and shoot your belly and backside with BB. In the back of your Cutler Ridge town house, you start try grow mango tree and ackee tree with any seeds you come by, but no amount of water or fertilizer will get them to sprout.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Birth<\/a>
\nBy Louise Erdrich
\nIssue no. 111 (Summer 1989)<\/em><\/p>\n

When they were wild
\nWhen they were not yet human
\nWhen they could have been anything,
\nI was on the other side ready with milk to lure them,
\nAnd their father, too, the name like a net in his hands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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