This Land

Novelist Paul Auster talks about late painter-poet Joe Brainard and his classic memoir I Remember.

When we walk–whenever we really walk, in an unhurried, unhassled way–we clear our heads, we get exercise, we breathe, we see new things, we travel, we reflect, we ponder, we saunter, we stroll, we mull over, we move at our leisure (and pleasure). In a way, we’re almost writing a…

POETRY AND THE NEWS

by Scott Gregory

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There’s a long poem by William Carlos Williams (from late in his career) called “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower.” Toward the end of the piece, he writes: “It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every…

Tulsa Okla.
10th April

Mr. Henry Ford
Detroit, Mich.
Dear Sir. —

While I still have got breath in my lungs
I will tell you what a dandy car you make.
I have drove Fords
Exclusively
When I could get away
With

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