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“Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most” by Ella Fitzgerald

A reminder of how beautiful the blues can be

No lyricist has better captured how fickle the purported season of rebirth, flowering trees and, oh yes, love can be, than Fran Landesman in the jazz classic “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most.” Once I was a sentimental … Continue reading

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“Between Going and Coming” by Octavio Paz

Reading Octavio Paz's "Between Going and Coming" as a reaction to death

Octavio Paz received some seriously impressive accolades during his lifetime: he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1982, and for a period he held the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry … Continue reading

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“I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.”

-T.S. Eliot
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