#Losassomae

Barbaric figs and ducks? There’s something exotic, even poetic, about the origins of the orgue de Barbarie. We might well expect to encounter amid those figs and ducks in the lush linguistic verdure of Marianne Moore’s famous “imaginary gardens with real…

The poet Alice Notley died on May 17. But death was a place that she had visited before, a state with which she had long communed. Step into the uninvidious nonvoid inter alia especially be- Tween the live and dead for I have been there often and know it…