The Paris Review2d
The Jewish Furrier Explains the Search for Beauty
Remember where I came from. Think of a continent of sabled czars. Leave your home. Let exile fill your mouth like the lost language of the child. Understand the reason. A man who would not wear the ...
The Paris Review2d
The Black Venus: For Max Ernst
of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...
The Paris Review2d
Portfolio: Margaret Finds a Box
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 ...
The Paris Review3d
from Notes from a Child of Paradise
Of time so long and I’d assumed, wrongly, ...
The Paris Review3d
Poet at Seventy-Eight
You wonder who in the world are the people who actually use stool cards. They’re the very same scum who sell drugs to little kids in school yards.
The Paris Review4d
Rabelaisian Enumerations: On Lists
Usually, institutional libraries are governed by highly codified policies. Their catalogues are their raison d’être, elegant data structures that facilitate easy circulation and millennial continuity.
The Paris Review4d
Notes for Illustrations: Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica ...
The Paris Review6d
Mallarmé’s Poetry of the Void
Hecker’s work points back to Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1876 poem L’Après-midi d’un faune—and its subsequent musical and ...