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Anna Zemankova was born in Olomouc, Moldavia on August 23, 1908, worked as a dental technician for ten years before her marriage in 1933, began a family in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and moved to Prague after the war. Following a period of depression in 1960,...

John Ashbery. Chinese Whispers. NY: FSG, 2002. 100 pp. $21John Ashbery is the horizon beyond which, at present, we do not see. In such splendors as Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), Houseboat Days (1977), and A Wave (1984), Ashbery has forged...

I have been trying to write this text for several hours, and I'm still having problems deciding on the tone. The matter is obviously of international or even global significance, so I should be serious. I am not, however, a political expert, only a citizen...

3.Detained without cup inhills' green openings.Moss under the gatecalled from shelterin these secret sweeps.We take our houses far,hard out until shore issouth of a hill. Light we honouradvances the lake,a balcony afloatgains as shines.4.Rows of perfect...

From the north side of London, the Tate Modern is best reached by walking from the traffic circle before St. Pauls Cathedral over the Thames on the new Millenium footbridge to the main doors of the museum. That seventeenth-century St. Pauls and the twenty-first...

Kant thought he was honoring art when among the predicates of beauty he emphasized and gave prominence to those which established the honor of knowledge: impersonality and universality. This is not the place to inquire whether this was essentially a...

For more than a decade, Mark McMorris has been publishing his dense and eloquent poems in leading electronic and print venues including Callaloo, Conjunctions, Fence, Hambone, and Tripwire. In addition to three tightly conceived chapbooks released during...

Jose Saramago. The Cave. Translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. NY: Harcourt, 2002. 320 pp. $25Toward the end of Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville, worrying about a new and peculiarly modern form of tyranny, imagines an "immense...

Jennifer Moxley. The Sense Record and other poems. Washington, D.C.: Edge Books, 2002. 78 pp. $12.50The Sense Record is Jennifer Moxley's second full-length collection of poems. Like its predecessor, Imagination Verses (Tender Buttons, 1996), it evinces...

Those of us who had just started calibrating to Chicago's pleasant pace along Lake Michigan have been struggling to retune our idles to the recent spate of carefully curated poetry readings that have been cropping up in the last few years. In addition...