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from Percival Everett in “The Art of Fiction No. 235”
Everett: “I remember loving Lewis Carroll from an early age, and not just “Through the Looking-Glass” and “Alice” but the syllogisms and a book on logic. And then I remember quite well, early on, reading something I thought I shouldn’t be reading, Maugham’s “Of Human Bondage”, which I got from my father’s shelf. I think…
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“be frank (if you can’t be frank, be john and kenneth).”
From “The Last Avant-Garde” by David Lehman: [Frank] O’Hara’s ironically self-deprecating tone was much imitated. “I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love,” he wrote. He kiddingly called his own poems “the by-product of exhibitionism” and wrote constantly about his daily life. It was O’Hara who initiated the policy of…
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Inside Joke
Wikipedia Poem, No. 463 george meredith tinter-365 the testament of cresseid edmund near perigord tennyson thomas gray elegy written in time of cresseid edmund near perigord the dream-777 tha twee dogs william butler yeats lamia the axeheave john keats meditations in time of civil war robert henryson the testament of the lady of civil war…
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from ‘On Secrets’ by Mary Ruefle
“When you are walking down a city street and not paying much attention—perhaps you are downtrodden by some confusion—and come suddenly upon a rose bush blooming against a brick wall, you may be struck and awakened by the appearance of beauty. But the rose is not beautiful. You think the rose is beautiful and so you…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 307
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