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(Friday’s Latin Club posts, continued) The poet Allen Grossman reportedly died in the morning on Friday, June 27, 2014.
From the cover of Anne Sexton's Transformations— "Her metaphoric strength has never been greater — really funny, among other things, a dark, dark laughter." — C. K. Williams Another dark lady: See…
The eight parts of the semaphore circle in the previous post suggest some context for Fritz Leiber's eight-limb "spider" symbol: See Mary Karr, Time on the Cross,…
The title refers to a search (see below) suggested by three things— David Foster Wallace biographer D. T. Max— "There's a note in one of my files where he…
Damnation Morning— From her left arm hung a black handbag that closed with a drawstring and from which protruded the tip of a silvery object about which I…
"I just seemed to have more frames per second than other kids." — Mary Karr, "Facing Altars: Poetry and Prayer" See also "Signs and Symbols."
"Poetry never left me stranded, and as an atheist most of my life, I presumed its mojo was a highbrow, intellectual version of what religion did for those…
In honor of William York Tindall (yesterday's entry): A Literary Symbol for Boyne Day Mary Karr was "an unfashionably bookish kid whose brain wattage was sapped by a…
Interpreter's Booth Tonight's online New York Times: Click to enlarge. Mary Karr, "Facing Altars: Poetry and Prayer"– "There is a body on the cross in my…
Stories for Mary Karr "In reality, my prose books probably sit between I Was a Teenage Sex Slave and some other contemporary memoir written in five minutes…." —…