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Friday, September 14, 2012
Freaks and geeks?
I've been keenly awaiting this piece, which I knew was in the offing:
at the Times Magazine, Mark Oppenheimer on Stephen Burt as poetry's cross-dressing kingmaker
! (Which gives the whole thing a
Game of Thrones
flavor...)
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Lee
9/14/2012 12:14 PM
A piece like this only makes me glad not to have a culture game to play!
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A piece like this only makes me glad not to have a culture game to play!
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