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The Story of Standardization
Lego: a globally popular toy of interlocking plastic modules. When parents and children use them to make miniature buildings, I doubt they stop to think about the toy’s material ancestry. But we can do that her...
A Stepson's Elegy
My birth mother died when I was two, so I have no conscious memories of her.
My birth mother died when I was two, so I have no conscious memories of her. My father remarried three years later to a much younger woman, also widowed. A kind a...
Sentimentality and Passion
In the last line of Yeats’s poem “The Fisherman,” there is this striking phrase: “as cold and passionate as the dawn.” It’s a memorable but puzzling formula.
In the last line of Yeats’s poem “The Fisherman,” there is this striking phrase:...
July 4th
Fifty years ago, when I lived in New York, I observed the US Bicentennial celebrations, including a picnic in Riverside Park not far from Grant’s Tomb.
Fifty years ago, when I lived in New York, I observed the US Bicentennial celebrations,...
Cavafy and Alexandrianism
I first heard of Constantine Cavafy (or, more properly in Greek, Kavafis) in a footnote: the “old poet of the city” invoked in the opening of Lawrence Durrell’s novel Justine. Incorporating a translation of Cavafy’s “The City” in that book...
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Author of 11 books of poetry, two novels and three collections of critical essays. Translator from German, Italian, French, Spanish, and Greek. Guggenheim, NEA, Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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