Charles Ives’s “Charlie Rutlage” sung by Marni Nixon

Up and up To the higher levels Where they have resorted To eating dust and roots For living Up and…

These small matters that separate us, that we allow to stand between us, are only small matters to be pushed…

from “Driving by the Lake with John Ashbery” by Douglas Crase left: Larry Rivers’s portrait of John Ashbery and “Pyrography”(circa…