Ben Lerner’s first book of poems in thirteen years, The Lights, gathers several kinds of lines and sets them talking to one another, several styles intertwined so that the play of forms itself is a poem. One form—one thread—is made up of waterfalls of prose, unparagraphed and sometimes covering several pages. Another thread consists of shorter lines, the first letter of the line often capitalized, poetry that’s sometimes disjunctive, as if the relationship between the end of one line and the beginning of the next were not so much an enjambment—a term whose root, by the way, refers to a racing horse stepping outside the lines—as an occasion for representing a glitch. A glitch in our electronic communications? Our signal? The hesitations of the voice? A smoothness in Lerner’s poetry is always revolting against itself.
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“Donald Trump is no longer in business.” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron ruled Tuesday that the Trump Organization is guilty of a decade of systemic fraud. The evidence is so plain that edjudicating the facts at trial is unneeded. Engoron also revoked its state business licenses and ordered it dissolved (Washington Post): A judge overseeing a $250 million lawsuit against Donald Trump ruled the former president and his company committed fraud by inflating his net worth in business transactions, narrowing the scope of what the state’s attorney general must prove at an upcoming civil trial.
The EU is implementing a blanket ban on facial recognition surveillance by police - but the UK is ploughing ahead despite privacy fears
Though cited as by the right as a symbol of the dangers and Islam and fundamentalism, the novelist now sees the threats to free speech as "political more than primarily religious"
. Kjell-Åke Andersson turned Göran Tunström’s s epic masterpiece The Christmas Oratory into a stunningly beautiful and emotionally overwhelming movie. Stefan Nilsson wrote the breathtaking music. And it still breaks my heart every time I watch it … One day you shall hang this jewel around my neck. Then I am yours. Now I am nothing […]
Hey, bud. I’m just checking in to see if everyone’s still wearing shorts to dinner later. I distinctly remember us all agreeing tonight would be way too hot for pants. So in case you were wondering, I’m still 100 percent committed to that pact.
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The forecast is holding firm at ninety-three degrees between 7 and 8 p.m. Definitely shorts weather. It does get a little chilly in Tampa around 11 p.m. Not sure if that alters things with you guys in the pants realm? I know Darryl likes to think ahead. As long as more than one of us is still wearing shorts, I suppose it’s cool if he turns up in jeans. A pants contingency plan might be something to consider, though.
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A few goosebumps appearing on the ol’ calf muscles now. Has Greg said anything about the shorts sitch? He mentioned something about the sea breeze making conditions quite cool in the evenings. I don’t know him that well. Is he the sort of guy to bail on wearing shorts even though everyone was in agreement?
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John Roberts and Samuel Alito own shares of companies that could score billions in tax relief from the outcome of Moore v. United States.
At once a victim of Russian war crimes and a suspected collaborator, Anna is caught between Ukraine’s overlapping quests for justice.
The post A Ukrainian Woman Protected Her Daughter From Russian Soldiers — and Was Accused of Collaborating With the Enemy appeared first on The Intercept.
A year after the attacks, no one has been charged with the bombing, but mounting evidence points to Ukrainian involvement.
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Corporations say they can’t meet auto workers’ demands while also transitioning to electric vehicles — but they just need to fork over the money.
Since taking over as president of the European Central Bank in late 2019, Christine Lagarde has committed three major errors that play right into the hands of right-wing populists. Now, one can only hope that these parties’ own incompetence will sink them before next year’s European Parliament elections. ATHENS – Christine Lagarde’s three blunders as president […]
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The UK could show global leadership by pushing for the international community to broaden its definition of refugees, writes former British diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
Itua Etiobhio, Riyad Khan and Steve Blaxland The volume of information available to supervisors from public sources has grown enormously over the past few years, including unstructured text data from traditional news outlets, news aggregators, and social media. This presents an opportunity to leverage the power of data science techniques to gain valuable insights. By … Continue reading Can data science capture key insights in news articles?
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