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Song of the Week: “Joe Harper Saturday Morning” by Van Morrison

Van Morrison was born with sixteen red hairs damply coiled on a chest already barrel-thick. His urine smelled of peat. His father said if he ran too fast, his soul would lag behind his body, exposing him to danger in the form of timber trucks and falcons. His mother read to him from the epics of Ossian while four winds …

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by Rae Armantrout
Wesleyan University Press 2013
Reviewed by John Deming

“a metaphor / for sensation” 

When Roger Ebert died three weeks ago, I felt compelled to go back and read some of his old reviews of some of my favorite movies. In his review of Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters, Ebert has an insight about the Allen character, Mickey: “his constant complaint is that it’s all very well for these

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