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Since Way Back When Way back in the last century in 1992 when I was a mere 50 I slipped in between the clean sheets of my bed and sighed: Thank you, thank you. As I always do, so grateful to not be sleeping in the back seat of my ’56 Pontiac on Mount Ranier…

Did you know that in college Richard Howard was known as Dick Howard? Or that Robert Gottlieb, one of the great names in American book publishing, got his first job (at Simon & Schuster) by writing, when asked to state why he wanted to work in publishing, that he found the task impossible “since it…

Kate Middelton’s recently published book length poem Television (Giramando) is an emotional survey of the poet’s tv watching history. Both in its form and compositional approach, the poem owes much to A.R. Ammons’s Garbage. As Middleton writes in the book’s notes, “Re-reading Garbage, I was struck by the fact that in taking garbage as his…

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It is hard enough to relinquish privacy, to love the tilted child running across our lawn and shake hands with the thinning curve of a shadow, and yet by the standards demanded, love must be most given when the enemy appears, when the stone has hit the window and the fence is knocked down. Love…