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Brad Leithauser has been publishing poems and novels, much of it brilliant work, for forty years. When he was a young man he imagined writing a book about the structure of poetry. It has recently appeared—has been haunting his imagination for decades, and now at last is available between two covers. Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry is a lifetime’s worth of education on the craft, a handbook, a book of essays, yes, but each one geared—in the manner, say, of John Hollander—to particular elements. There are chapters on “Stanzas,” “Enjambment,” “Rhyme and Rhyme Decay,” “Iambic Tetrameter,” even a chapter on the boon afforded English-language poets by English’s odd spellings, and another on “Rim Rhyme” (“where consonants are held steady while internal vowels are shifted around,” like “light” and “late”). Though the title phrase means “rhyme” as a kind of synonym for poetry in general, this poet does argue for the power of rhyming—the relationship between two words—as being, still, central and generative to the art form’s vitality.

Khader Adnan represents a political culture that has come to permeate Palestine for years, a mode of collective resistance that cannot be easily crushed, silenced or killed. Even in death.

The post How Khader Adnan Unified the Palestinian People from an Israeli Prison Cell appeared first on MintPress News.

“The idea behind [Swedish Death Cleaning] is simple: At a certain point in your life, you should stop accumulating more stuff and start dealing with the stuff you’ve already accumulated so your loved ones won’t have to do it after you’re gone.” – Lifehacker

Life is temporary, but Swedish Death Metal is forever. We, the members of the band Bloodstained Odin, will help you destroy all the shit in your house so you can die on a pile of broken litter. You will be remembered not as a part-time math teacher at Nieblas Middle School, but as a demigod who stayed true to their mission of destroying shit instead of subscribing to society’s fucked-up rules about getting organized.

Media reports created a false impression of a major breakthrough linking animals to Covid’s origins.

The post The Rise and Fall of the Raccoon Dog Theory of Covid-19 appeared first on The Intercept.

Jeremy Scahill speaks to James Risen and Thomas Risen about their new book, “The Last Honest Man.”

The post Frank Church, Deep State: The True Story of the Senator Who Took on the CIA and Its Corporate Clients appeared first on The Intercept.

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Labor’s budget fails workers and the poor so it can keep big companies, the military and the rich all on side.

The post Budget failure sees Labor put weapons and the rich ahead of action on cost of living appeared first on Solidarity Online.