not elizabeth bishop

thought I’d try to learn about visual art / logically I started a blog with no pictures

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Pied Beauty

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Ashbery / Klimt

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Sandra Lim on her poem “Human Interest Story”

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Mark Strand, “Keeping Things Whole”

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from Twitter

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Sara Nicholson, “What I Said, Where I Said It, and Why”

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Three consecutive pages from a manuscript of Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg!!!!

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Arda Collins, “Low”

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The Travels of Marco by Mark Levine

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As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to appreciate Moses more and more. He’s someone chosen by God to be God’s conduit and to represent and lead his people, and yet he is so far from perfect. In fact, he is full of rage. But much as he acts out and alienates himself, he can’t seem to slough off his duty, his “virtue,” to use that word again, his usefulness. I’m having trouble saying this concisely, and I’m not even sure the poem says it, but that’s the love story the poem is interested in: the way your human duty clings to you, as though it loves you back.

from an interview with Jessica Laser

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from “Evolution” Margaret Ross

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Mock Orange

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from Three Songs at the End of Summer

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John le Carré demonstrating a novel method of intimidating a journalist