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“On Some Early Modern Artifacts” by Zach Savich
The line you know best / Represents sadness. / That is your birthline.
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“Inch of ocean, pinch of face”
Like the razor-edged minimalism of Robert Creeley, the rich ontology of these poems, where the content and form eloquently match, communicates carefully into the reader’s memory.
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The Rumpus Book Blog Roundup
Sometimes, the Rumpus makes fun of the book blogs, especially when they write about whether William Shatner would beat James T. Kirk in a fight to the death. But this week is different. This week, the blogs are acting like…
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The Rumpus Interview with Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan, the Armenian-Canadian director best known for The Sweet Hereafter, Where the Truth Lies, and Ararat, is back with a new film out in theaters, titled Adoration.
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Thoughts on Antichrist
I took notes during the first Cannes press screening of Lars von Trier’s new film Antichrist but I don’t have them in front of me right now. I don’t need them. This movie is many things: shocking, troubling, angry, maybe…
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So Long in Coming
Alfred Kinsey had his own movie, but William Masters and Virginia Johnson remain the unsung heroes of human sexuality studies. The latest issue of The Economist, however, takes four paragraphs to celebrate them and the “audacious, rigorous and weird” goings-on…
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Sexual Healing?
Women are nasty. They piss, and fart, and masturbate. They clean toilet seats with their vaginas and pull out tampons with barbeque tongs.
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Dick Cheney or Sith Lord?
Larry Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff calls the former VP a “Sith Lord” and then takes him to the mat:
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OK, OK, I Get it! Keyboard Cat!
Steven: You haven’t seen this shit? Me: What? Steven: It’s been going around recently. It’s just like funny videos, and then at the end there’s this cat starts playing an electric piano. Me: What song? Steven: Some little ditty. With…
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THE CHENEY DOCTRINE
I’m sick of torture. And the fact that we’re one of the countries way up there on the J.D. Powers annual “torture reliability” list makes me unwell as well. As does talking AROUND torture. What this country needs is an…
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THE RUMPUS ADVICE COLUMN: “Under what circumstances is it appropriate for a woman to pick a fight with a guy?”
My unofficial answer would be aim well.