The London Review of Books
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Three Collections in Two Volumes by August Kleinzahler
Be stunned by Kleinzahler’s poetry in the far ports of your body.
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The Problem with Poems
The fatal problem with poetry: poems. At the London Review of Books, Ben Lerner discusses the difficulty of memorizing Marianne Moore’s “Poetry” and how every failed poem is actually what makes poetry successful as a whole.
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All Aboard
My aspiration to spend time at sea as requisite literary training died long ago, as a teenager, on a white-knuckled ferry ride to Elba during a torrential rainstorm. Not only was I seasick, I saw the population on board as…
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Walking Along Brighton Beach
As soon as Ashley came down the stairs from the subway, which rattles across a bridge over Brighton Beach Avenue, it all came tumbling out: who he really was and that he was married. Every time a train passed overhead…