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Deadwood · DeadwoodThere’s a fancy academic term for poems about visual art: ekphrastic. I hate the word, just because of the clunky sound of its first syllables, but I warmly embrace the idea. W. H. Auden based much of his great poem “Musée des Beaux Arts” on the Brueghel painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. It’s difficult to look at Parmigianino’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror without thinking of John Ashbery’s poem of the same title, one of his most c…Read Article
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Albuquerque · Albuquerque“I probably have a thousand memories,” my friend from Albuquerque said. He was talking about our five days together in Madrid over Easter week. “Really?” “Yes. Easily a thousand.” I said that I didn’t have that many, I was certain. I couldn’t prove it though, not even to myself, because I didn’t know how you could inventory memories. I might search for a particular one, bring it up, dust it off. But how to count five days’ worth? Especially when…Read Article
