Yearly Archives: 2008

glib

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First Night

The bari’s laryngitis for his first time on the stage built a backstage tension no lozenge could assuage. The bass was getting nervous: he had a tricky part; in “Sh Boom” he sings a counterpoint—the timing is an art. The … Continue reading

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poet warrior

Seems obscene, the thought of a poet fighting: John McCrae, obscenely, in Flanders, writing caught in ink obscenity’s final purpose writing in Flanders. Moderns scoff at poets and when they do they think of silly newspaper verse and drivel flowing … Continue reading

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