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Lindsay Ahl

Lindsay Ahl
Bio
Lindsay Ahl's novel, Desire, was published by Coffee House Press in 2004. Her work has appeared in BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Fiction Magazine, Global City Review, on Fishousepoems.org (and their anthology, From the Fishouse), Drunken Boat, and many others. The photo is for fun, don't take it seriously. I posed for several hat ads holding different books.

MY RECENT POSTS

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A Dedication to and Dispatch from Another’s War Front --

in Reference to Frederico Garcia Lorca’s “Play and Theory of the Duende” 

 

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On Beauty and Rainer Maria Rilke’s First Duino Elegy

             The other day I was teaching my students Rilke’s First Elegy. (I’d teach all Rilke’s Elegies, but it’s a survey class, so we’re speeding by). I was talking to… Read full post »

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009 1:59AM

Dispatch on Ikkyu, poetry, dwelling places

All of this internet activity creates a feeling of community, a feeling of actual connection, and therefore has within in it, if you are authentic, if you are true, real risk. But what is this risk?

 

Here is an Ikkyu quote:

 

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