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By William Boyle
A magisterial new biography of Frank Stanford chronicles a poet obsessed with death and prone to betrayal.
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Death
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Laura Gilpin is best remembered as the author of “The Two-headed Calf.” Who was she, and why was her poetry career cut short?
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From the magazine:Beach
By Stanley PlumlyThe end, I think, will be a little like looking down as far as I can see to where the wind has kicked… - Poem
From the magazine:Thinking of It
By Michael RobinsHere before the sun rises, I find it difficult to make the words, to lean
forward three years after your… - Poem
From the magazine:Small Talk
By Michael RobinsI dreamed you called without reason, picking up where we left the
water months ago. Origins without … - Poem
From the magazine:broken lyre
By Asha Futtermanmy hands are still my hands
like my grandfather’s hands
are his hands and they
are on the window
attached… - Poem
From the magazine:Grave-Digging
By Rodney JonesIt was July. I must have been sixteen or seventeen,
And proud to be chosen for a grown man’s work,
Hollowing… - Poem
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From “First Light: 88 Frequencies” [“everyone’s/drawing the”]
By CAConradeveryone’s drawing the Death Card the chair pressing - Poem
From the magazine:The Death of the Book
By Luke Allan1. This morning the nurse tested me for allergies. She said she’d test for “known allergies,” which … - Poem
From the magazine:All my life I was a bride married to amazement
By Jane ZwartWhen death comes, final and novel—
the trick cul-de-sac or burst dam, a door
that opening erases or shutting… - Poem
From the magazine:Eloquence
By Georgio RussellWithin this simple chapel, located near the navel
of the little clinic, the walls are all the white
of… - Poem
From the magazine:Jenny Holzer—DYING SHOULD BE AS EASY AS FALLING OFF A LOG (1978)
By Rochelle Hurt[as jumping from a plane. easier—a bridge. as tripping on a shoelace. as blinking your eyes. as breathing…