From a love poem by Montale
I learned about a bug—cochineal—
A parasite that eats the red
Fruit of prickly pear
And then becomes the color carmine.
In another book I found
Rose madder: softer
Red, fugitive, from a …
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The trees had taken their crowns away. The birds—those you would need two hands to hold, those you could capture between finger and thumb—had nowhere to rest, so I conveyed them into my house. In my house I had things …
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for Diana
The Lost Tree of Ténéré
was the last of a dwindling grove
of acacias that could not adapt
to the changing climate
or to the hungry animals
that traveled upwind
& yet despite or because
Both of Alison Rumfitt’s novels open with a content warning. As well as flagging potentially distressing material, these warnings function as upfront statements of Aboutness. “Tell Me I’m Worthless is a book about two things, primarily, and those things …
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Making Scenes: Three Writers on Puerto Rican Syndrome (on Justin Torres’s Blackouts; Urayoán Noel’s Transversal; and Éric Morales-Franceschini’s Syndrome)
Scene 1
A small, stuffy bedroom in a boardinghouse called the Palace, window thrown open to the desert night. Two men have reunited after meeting nearly a decade ago when both were committed to a mental hospital, where they knew …
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In the first chapter of The Porch: Meditations on the Edge of Nature, Charlie Hailey defines the porch as a place of meeting and exchange: “Porch is that place where inside and outside mix, where architecture’s edges encounter climate, …
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“Well, it was a sort of bet,” recalled Tom Phillips, decades later. “I was in a furniture shop with a friend, R. B. Kitaj, another artist, and I said, ‘the first book I can find for threepence, I will work …
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a. Driving Home from the Night Shift, Our Mother
Listens to Hank Williams’ “Lost Highway”
She cracks the window,
letting the cold air
slap her awake. Cranking
the radio, she sings
along as she leans
into the burn of …
