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Between Words

Anne Carson’s new book-without-a-spine, and the spiritual experience of centrelessness

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

A postmodern elegy from our most original writer

Boredom as a Political Weapon

Saul Bellow fought banality—and taught us to look hard at the world

Jim Nason

Jim Nason is the author of a short story collection, three novels, and six volumes of poetry, most recently Rooster, Dog, Crow.

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Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca

July–August 2012
  i. Dark earth bloodstain; pink seed of pomegranate and good-hearted Spaniards kicking back at Fascists. Granada, paradise of castles and cobblestones where wind cuts and music clings to whitewashed walls. Tortured and shot, you died in pursuit of gannia, deep song primitive. Buried in an unmarked grave, brave man, maricon…