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… The Oxford Conference of 1937 and the League of Nations are also full of promise, but at present health and youth … his sentences are filled with the plastic analogues of melodies, orchestration and counterpoint, fugues and symphonies. …

… a poet without myth, without meta- , physic, without commitment to any systematic vision of the world, perhaps … scenes and regions. “There are in her poems,” says David Kalstone, “no final visions—only the saving, continuing, … dead on the spot. Nobody else’s does. And then your father dies. . . . I give you money for the funeral and you go and …

Blue Ridge Bestiary 1. Vulture Business never slows for the air’s ubiquitous morticians, their spiraling so effortless we might admit its beauty, if we didn’t know how eagerly, in those ridiculous black boas, they wait to begin the endless dissipation we …

… August 2014 evening, Claudia Emerson read from her forthcoming collection of poetry at the inaugural VQR Writers’ …

… she wanted to do: she didn’t roll her eyes, didn’t say, Oh, come off it, Mother B ! Whenever Mom tells that story, … And so he doesn’t disown them as acquaintances or golf buddies, and he doesn’t harangue them every time they use the … my great aunts, my parents, my sisters, me. At different points in our lives, everyone in my family—both immediate …