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Sister Cities: Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans and Stax Records’ Memphis
… recording-​industry hub. No homegrown New Orleans record company approached the commercial success of Memphis’s Sun … , got me thinking about the differences between the bodies of written history surrounding New Orleans music and … As you hear “Big Butter and Egg Man from the West,” a 1926 recording, you realize Brothers is right: There’s the …
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Love Song for the Mother of No Children
… You remembered her in a red dress and white sandals, Oleta before Dorrie and Elia died, arms bare, toenails painted. She dropped her sandals … her brother’s veins to find its way inside his bones and become part of him. When she said she was going to die, it …
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Why I am Subscribing to Poets & Writers Magazine, Right Now
… cheap hucksterism, self-helpy schlock, bitter back-biting, false evangelism, blatant copyright infringement, and … pitch themselves as indispensible tools for anyone who comes in contact with the publishing industry, writers … , and all the articles I don’t have access to from their website, I’m going to subscribe to Poets & Writers …
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Funeral
… to ask them, Who’s this stranger? Where’d he live? How’d he die? There are many causes of death, among them the ache … by Mohammad Shaheen and Amro Naddy Poetry death funerals Mahmoud Darwish 140-140 By Mahmoud Darwish …
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Bird, Duke, Mingus, and All That Jazz
… (where a musician was asked to listen to and identify and comment on various recordings—which I thought was just the … to present a confused picture of Parker’s short life. (He died of a heart attack at the age of thirty-five.) Now comes … (University of Chicago Press) acknowledges, as one critic points out , ”that a certain group of people who have …
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The Exile’s Tale
… The Exile’s Tale The country I come from is far to the north: our wedding dresses are lined … winter sleep, whose dreams, in the religion of my land, comprise the human soul. In my country the snow lies as deep …
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