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About Me
- Jenny Davidson
- I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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May
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- "It's not very nautical"
- Meat on a bun
- Closing tabs
- "It was prime rib and plain steak"
- MdNoLr
- Bicycle sweets
- Denning under a softball field
- Subdued to what it works in
- Things organized neatly
- Abundant recompense
- Light reading catch-up
- Of cake-holes and cracking birds
- Haptic petal-beds
- "Every bit the scratch baker"
- Light reading catch-up
- Two bits
- SEAL-themed pitches
- Reconstructing life from tiny artifacts
- Self-regulating schemes
- Ambush, pounce/pursuit, pursuit
- The libido and the desire for fame
- "Nothing can come of nothing"
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Re putrefying hamburger meat. One of my favorite descriptions is from Robert Lowell's "Returning Turtle":
ReplyDeleteWeeks hitting the road, one fasting in the bathtub,
raw hamburger mossing in the watery stoppage,
the room drenched with musk like kerosene-
no one shaved, and only the turtle washed.