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… however, occupies a space where agency and identity become blurred, where one might act like a sloppier version of … finish a sentence, that I am writing at all. Yet writing is also an act of constraint: The sentences lasso the … in translating that touch, tell us a story about our bodies and the spaces they move through. Without touch, or …
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… / Art Resource, NY.) Poetry . I moved to California to become a poet. Or maybe it was an accident, which is, of … “Know ye,” he writes, “that at the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very close to … and possibility that marks not just Haight-Ashbury but also any romantic bohemian movement, the lucky vacation for …
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… that can only be measured at the level of the atom. Miyu studies the miniature refrigerator, which is small enough to … Miniatures like these are often crafted entirely from balsa wood and foamboard, from beads of glue set in place … careful application of a scalpel. By day, she works for a company specializing in cleaning and restoring homes after …
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… know with certainty where we end and Delbanco’s disembodied practitioners begin. One evening about one year ago, … of polite options at my disposal, I picked up my briefcase and began to leave the room. With my hand on the … famous Borges story “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote. ”26 And, of course, when I wrote my story abstract I hadn’t …
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… on 125th Street, where residents lounged on benches and welcomed each other with cheerful banter. They also welcomed me, and I sat beside them, took one of the kiddie’s box drinks they offered, and enjoyed their jovial talk …
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… The dark woods increased my sense of unease, but also my curiosity. I didn’t know if I was heading toward the … this same spot, about to do his last duty to the arm of his commander. It was hard to imagine the arm, now a bone, … through some of the War’s most decisive battles, finally died of pneumonia in a small weathered cottage a week after …