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Jordan Smith: These Days

The danger of elegy is that it just tells us what we already know: we lose and suffer and become the subject of the loss and suffering of others. Liam had no patience for what he called the “I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed” school of poetry.

August 8, 2025 · 6 Comments

Larry Levis: François Villon on the Condition of Pity in Our Time

We’re broken buttons, we’re blown dust.
There’s not one tear left in all of us.
I know, for I am François Villon, murderer

August 17, 2024 · 10 Comments

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