Elizabeth Metzger writes a taut, searing line. Compression isn’t the right word, because these are capacious poems, phrases that hold and open up worlds—of feeling, of experience, of memory mixed with a living moment. Efficient might be a more accurate description—or impeccable. Part of the intensity of the poetry is the stripping away of anything that might moderate or mediate the punch. The result is a kind of a sharp but philosophical rhetoric, lyrical as a knife, breaking from image to statement with breathtaking—and devastating—deftness. Metzger also has a gift for the oddity of simile: “Be honest,” she writes, “as water.” Water is a fitting figure for this poet’s work, both for its persistence and liquid beauty, but also its unremitting force. Water, also, because Metzger is a poet of grieving: Her first book, The Spirit Papers, became, at least in part, a powerful elegy for her friend the late poet Max Ritvo—“life-yoked,” is her description for their shared bond. They were “joined at the Daemon.” I say became because some of the poems predate her encounter with Ritvo, and all of them were written before he died, many as he was slipping away.
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Representative Stacey Plaskett, who called Michael Shellenberger and me "direct threats to people who oppose them," is now threatening me with prison - over Mehdi Hasan's uncorrected error
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I’m just a typical British man having a pint in a traditional cockney pub on my way to work in the morning. A London Taxi is having a fight with a red phone box at one end of the bar. Through the window, I can see Big Ben, St Pauls, Nelson’s Column, Stonehenge, the White Cliffs of Dover, and Gordon Ramsey.
The pub was constructed in 1066 by Robin Hood and his merry men and has remained unchanged ever since, save for the introduction of a jar of pickled pigeons on the end of the bar that costs 50p and makes for a delightful light accompaniment to a pint. As was the tradition of the day, one of the merry men was encased alive in a glass compartment in the wall so his merriness would infuse the pub forever.
It is exceptionally crowded today with men in bowler hats eating a hearty breakfast of mince and onions who are too repressed to speak to someone else other than to apologise occasionally for looking like they might be about to speak to someone else.
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Sky rephrases Labour Friends of Israel officer’s words in tweet – and locks comments after outcry against racism – and Kyle calls Scotland ‘Ireland’ twice for good measure Right-wing Labour MP Peter Kyle and Sky News have stirred outrage after Kyle – an officer of ‘Labour Friends of Israel’ whose local members were banned from […]
From AIDS to Covid, the history of regulation shows that we need facts — but also direct action.
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“The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work." -- Lewis Hine, 1908
Iain Overton looks at the evidence that gun control measures lead to a decline in gun-related deaths
With inflation up, growth down, and 80% of Britons unsatisfied with the political system, Matthew Gwyther explores a catastrophic loss of faith in our economic system
Eugene Debs, the socialist who ran for President despite being a convict times two, is again in the spotlight.
By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com The White House is preparing to take unprecedented action to limit US investments in China’s tech sector, POLITICO reported on Tuesday. The action would come in the form of an executive order signed by President Biden that would require American companies to notify the government of new investments in Chinese tech. It […]
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Between the Indiana recycling plant fire and the Ohio toxic train derailment, experts say the president needs to disregard industry lobbying and address the dangers of plastics.
Leaked U.S. intelligence documents have exposed Western disinformation about Ukraine winning the war. Now the heavy fighting moves to Washington, writes Joe Lauria.
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Why Depleted Uranium Should Have No Place There.
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By Conor Smyth / Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) A ban on evictions. Required paid leave. Continuous Medicaid coverage. Free school meals. Emergency SNAP allotments. An extra $600 a week in unemployment benefits. Child tax credit expansion. Thousands in stimulus checks. These measures were part of a suite of policies the US government passed […]
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Leaked Pentagon documents revealed the US and other NATO members have US special operations forces inside Ukraine.
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Jeremy Scahill, Murtaza Hussain, and Vanessa Gezari analyze the leaked top-secret Pentagon documents and the Air National Guardsman alleged to have taken them.
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These billionaires seem to care more about their bottom lines than fan safety.
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People shouldn't be punished for revealing the secrets of the government, governments should be punished for keeping secrets from the people.
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