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The Grimacer of Beaune
From his upper lip a deeply etched wrinkle descends on either side of his mouth to his chin, which seems to swell and is ...
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Kevin Killian’s Amazon Reviews, Part 1
From Selected Amazon Reviews, to be published by Semiotext (e) this month.
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The Peasant Emperor and the Retired Official
In 1985, a peasant named Zeng Yinglong declared his hometown in Sichuan Province an independent kingdom and proclaimed himself emperor. As a result, Zeng was charged with multiple counterrevolutionary ...
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The Hawk's Cry in Autumn
Wind from the northwestern quarter is lifting him high above ...
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The Black Venus: For Max Ernst
of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...
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The Paris Review Fine Art Editions
The Paris Review was founded in the spring of 1952 by two young novelists living in Paris at the time—Harold L. Humes and Peter Matthiessen. Its first (and continuing) editor was George Plimpton who ...
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Photograph of My Father
Above the crescent of a colonnade. And he is standing on a gravel path Between turned-up rows of empty flower beds.
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When the Movie Theatre Closed
below and above them with pink.
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Dark Secrets, Erotic Words and Glances
the castigations and the bountiful.
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Women Singing in the Deep Sea
They are far from shore.
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Portfolio: Margaret Finds a Box
In his photographic sequences, Duane Michals has expanded the possibilities of his medium. While most photo- graphs deal with static appearances, Michals' depend on trans- formations and ...