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In the spring of 1976, William Maxwell left his job as fiction editor of the New Yorker, where he had worked for four decades, in order to concentrate on his own writing. This came as unhappy news to any number of writers, for he had nursed...

First, decide where water stops
And ice begins. Then, where ice

If hunting a lion, the weight of one’s gaze will scare it off. 
So one must always close his eyes before hunting a lion. 

The boss would like to see us not in person but would like to see us
do something better the boss would like to see us see ourselves differently

Against black matchsticks,
rotted fangs,
plus and minus, sum lines, mathematics, 

Not only did Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) live through most of the twentieth century, but her adventures, personal history, and written reflections made a significant mark upon her era. A pioneer aviator and an author, she was an...

She went to Zurich to rescue a man.
She’d made all the necessary maps. 
Paul Klee would’ve painted this woman

We are high performers not normal not just performers but high ones we 
perform things make papers smell like perfume we don’t order things other 

Ink slurs into byssal threads,
split blue caskets of mussels
scapular in ritual archipelago, butter, cream,