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\"Ansel<\/a>

Courtesy of Yale University Press<\/p><\/div>\n

Congratulations to Ansel Elkins, our poet-in-residence at the Standard, East Village, who\u2019s featured in The New Yorker<\/em><\/a> this week. (Complete with a terrific caricature by Tom Bachtell.) Elkins, who recently finished her residency, speaks to Andrew Marantz in the Talk of the Town section, discussing her time at the Standard, her unique position on the height spectrum (\u201cbetween Lolita and Lil\u2019 Kim\u201d), and her persistent yearning for HoJo ice machines.<\/p>\n

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Elkins spent her days indoors, napping and listening to Hank Williams and revising her poems with colored pens \u2026 Most nights, she went out for three-dollar tacos on Second Avenue and walked back slowly, gazing up at the gargoyles on East Sixth Street. \u201cThis late-night walking is the one thing about the city that\u2019s most saturated my work,\u201d she said, mentioning a new poem, an ode to Mae West, that she began writing here. (\u201cSinging in two languages\u2014\u00a0\/\u00a0English and body;\u00a0\/\u00a0She jazzes that dazzling verse.\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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