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The Collected Stories of Diane Williams / Is Beauty Good by Rosalind Belben
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A crow comes to eat my name
A Light No More by Robert Kloss
May 21
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In the midst of grief it seems I still had presence of mind enough to compose a poem
On A Tale Unasked by Lady Nijō
May 9
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I know who you are
On The Night Swimmers by Peter Rock
May 5
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What river is spoken of in that strange exile that is writing?
Kafka and I by Can Xue / Mishima's Head by Mario Bellatin
May 2
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A vain pursuit, a thousand times renewed
I the Supreme, Return, The Witch, Stardust
Apr 30
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Cioran Lost in the City
A prose poem for Emil Cioran
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"Iʼll keep after summer/until Iʼve forestalled his pretexts and lies,/Iʼll keep after him/and heʼll keep after me—/summer and a man/telling each other…
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