John Stoehr
By John Stoehr
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Opinion Why Was Alan Gross Anyone’s Guest of Honor?
Alan Gross basks in applause at the State of the Union address./Getty Images If you didn’t know anything about Alan Gross other than what you saw on television, you probably thought it was right for him to sit next to first lady Michelle Obama as guest of honor at this year’s State of the Union…
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Books Life and Afterlife of William Carlos Williams
Something Urgent I Have to Say to You: The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams By Herbert Leibowitz Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 528 pages, $40.00 William Carlos Williams was a second-rate poet. Was. These days, of course, he’s a towering figure of American modernism, the heir to Walt Whitman, the godfather of myriad schools…
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Culture Drawn to The Beat of a Generation
The Beats: A Graphic History Written by Harvey Pekar, et al. Illustrated by Ed Piskor, et al. Edited by Paul Buhle When Samuel Johnson was asked to join a venture to reprint English poets from Chaucer to the present, most of them major and some minor, it was at first a commercial effort. The London…
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Culture And Then There Was “And”
And Poems by Michael Blumenthal BOA Editions, Ltd.,112 pages, $16.00. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, saith poet Michael Blumenthal. Well, in fact, he nearly saith that. Not quite, but almost. Blumenthal’s new collection of poems, titled “And,” is the closest that the stoicism of Ecclesiastes will come to getting a 21st-century makeover. In it,…
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