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Permitting nothing to the evening’s edge.
The father does not come to adorn the chant.
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Determined thereto, perhaps by his father’s ghost,
Permitting nothing to the evening’s edge.
The father does not come to adorn the chant.
One father proclaims another, the patriarchs
Of truth…
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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.
Siri Hustvedt has a PhD in English literature from Columbia University and is a lecturer in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. Her most recent novel, The Blazing World, was longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and won the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. She has also published two books of essays, Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting and A Plea for Eros. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Nell Zink on German men.
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