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Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Nick Flynn

Nick Flynn

Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen

cosmicnoisedrifter: la crevette amoureuse, Henri Chopin 1967-73. Artist’s book, unbound, page, typescript on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm.

cosmicnoisedrifter:

la crevette amoureuse, Henri Chopin

1967-73. Artist’s book, unbound, page, typescript on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm.

Yugoslav passport issued June 18, 1953 for Charles Simic (top) and his brother

Yugoslav passport issued June 18, 1953 for Charles Simic (top) and his brother

Marc Chagall: “A Poet And His Muse Costume Design for Aleko”

Marc Chagall: “A Poet And His Muse Costume Design for Aleko”

Susan Howe on the Telepathy of Archives:

“In research libraries and collections, we may capture the portrait of history in so-called insignificant visual and verbal textualities and textiles. In material details. In twill fabrics, bead-work pieces, pricked patterns, tiny spangles, sharp toothed stencil-wheels; in quotations, thought-fragments, inscriptions, endangered phonemes, even soils and stains.”

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unypl: he is reading “A Guide to the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot,” by B.C. Southam. she is reading “Selected Poems,” by T. S. Eliot.

unypl:

he is reading “A Guide to the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot,” by B.C. Southam. she is reading “Selected Poems,” by T. S. Eliot.