reminds me of the aging Genji
who, to rid himself of Princess Tamakazura,
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‘nothing like an ancient corridor where a / woman is stripped of resistance.’
reminds me of the aging Genji
who, to rid himself of Princess Tamakazura,
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‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
Allen Bratton on a daytrip to a castle with his older boyfriend.
‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
Kimiko Hahn is the author of nine poetry collections, including The Unbearable Heart, The Artist's Daughter, The Narrow Road to the Interior and Brain Fever, forthcoming in October. She is a distinguished professor in the MFA programme in creative writing and literary translation at Queens College, City University of New York.
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‘Certainly the tide or the dog striding along the sluff of seaweed, / this afternoon – brown, light green, black green, white and red.’
‘Words only point to experience, they can’t replace it.’
Vanessa Onwuemezi and Colin Herd discuss UFOs, relation, and the search for an inner sense of home.
‘How do we perform our politics, our outrage and our grievances when we are among a group?’
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