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If art, even popular art—especially popular art—were simply a repository of an era’s wishes, to be matched beat for beat with its time’s psyche, it would not be art. It would be, well, a Comment, or an op-ed piece, with all the necessary fatuities of its kind. Adam Gopnik http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/four-kinds-of-opinion-pieces-i-will-not-read?mbid=social_twitter

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Robert Crawford, “Thread”

wesleyhill: My faithHangs by a thread.It always has.No pointSpending longGoing over itWorrying,Will it snap?Will it go?Is it the wrongKind of faith?Better just to take itAnd sew.

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…In a really basic way the words “God” and “Tree,” at different times in my life, became suddenly insufficient. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to see those things as two of my antecedents. I became desperate for a more meaningful encounter with both of them, which for me typically means new language. I wanted […]

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