My dream was a book that doesn’t exist. It was read aloud to me by a male narrator and illustrated with photo slides. Called August Is Back, it was an autobiography of a glamorous Jewish Italian woman ...

Emma, as I raced to get down what she said , wished that she could have a note taker for all of her soirées. Haydée thought ...

At its heart, this poem describes a compressed moment in time, put into stark relief by her contemplation of the great ...

useless, untender absences with bronze torsos.

and the rare song above the snow insane.

“Tour of the World” and “The Excursion” are both photographic serials by Jean Le Gac, a Parisian conceptual artist in his early forties. In each, apparent vacation snapshots are arranged in order and ...

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In the new Spring issue of The Paris Review, we published an Art of Poetry interview with Alice Notley, conducted by Hannah ...

Wrought on you by surprise.

Above the crescent of a colonnade. And he is standing on a gravel path Between turned-up rows of empty flower beds.

In his photographic sequences, Duane Michals has expanded the possibilities of his medium. While most photo- graphs deal with static appearances, Michals' depend on trans- formations and ...