The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Waiting for the Tape to Rewind
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...moreFirst, Grant Snider considers New Year’s resolutions in his inimitable way. Then, Barbara Berman draws a connection between two recent poetry collections—famous German playwright Bertold Brecht’s posthumous Love Poems and The Book of Scented Things: 100 Contemporary Poems About Perfume, edited by Jehanne Dubrow and Lindsay Lusby. Each poem in the latter makes sense of scents in a […]
...moreThat scene at Antone’s plays out one of my biggest fears: that when women aren’t in the room, straight men shift their conversations.
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