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From the archives

Object Lessons

Lisa Alward’s debut collection

The Other Side of “Irish Eyes”

Brian Mulroney abroad and at home

But Is It Trash?

Evaluating art in the age of conspicuous consumption

Modigliani

 

a translation of Anna Ahkmatova

 

With Modigliani following me

Through a blue Parisian fog

Looking like a dispirited and

Dispiriting shadow of himself,

I’ve been shaken even in my sleep

By a deep yearning remorse.

 

Yet for me—his Egyptian woman…

An old grinder’s organ moans

A Paris music that intones underfoot

Like the groaning sea,

He’d imbibed in his shame,

Drunk his fill of grief and hard times.

 

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