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@robertasmithnyt I'm not sure about poet, but Robert Lowell's "Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" is one of the great weather poems. https://t.co/duNhEdVbmR

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On the occasion of Annie Ernaux's Nobel, do read @manohladargis's excellent review of "Happening," based on one of her books. https://t.co/dOISbyIGiJ

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@MarkHarrisNYC "First" is always tricky, but I might go with William Maxwell, The Folded Leaf (1945). WM himself may count as bisexual, though he was not openly so at the time.

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An impassioned and wide-ranging work of literary criticism... This isn’t a historical survey of gardening, much less a practical guide, so much as an inquiry into the idea of the garden — its history and poetics, its relationship to sex, imagination and power.

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@ambernoelle I had not read Laurie Colwin's HAPPY ALL THE TIME before this spring when I plucked it off the shelf for no reason and it was like visiting a different planet, in the best way.

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a slender chronicle rendered in efficient, idiosyncratic English prose by the poet and translator Michael Hofmann