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TV Review: Seven Swordsmen
TV Review: Seven Swordsmen
TV Review: Seven Swordsmen aka “Seven Swords Descend from Mount Heaven”
In 17th Century China, the Qing Dynasty now rules where once the Ming Dynasty did. Many Han resent their new Manchu overlords and pockets of rebellion are everywhere. To help quell the resistance, the Qing have banned the practice of martial arts by ordinary citizens. The Red Spear Society strongly objects to this…
Movie Review: The Vampire (1957)
Movie Review: The Vampire (1957)
Movie Review: The Vampire (1957) directed by Paul Landre
Dr. Paul Beecher (John Beal) is a typical small-town doctor of the 1950s. He has an office in his house staffed by new pretty nurse Carol Butler (Coleen Gray), and also makes house calls. A widower, he lives with his young (11-12) daughter Betsy (Lydia Reed), who cooks for him when not taking ballet and piano lessons (the teachers can’t…
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Hurry
Marie Howe
We stop at the dry cleaners and the grocery store
and the gas station and the green market and
Hurry up honey, I say, hurry,
as she runs along two or three steps behind me
her blue jacket unzipped and her socks rolled down.
Where do I want her to hurry to? To her grave?
To mine? Where one day she might stand all grown?
Today, when all the errands are finally done, I say to her,
Honey I’m sorry I keep saying Hurry—
you walk ahead of me. You be the mother.
And, Hurry up, she says, over her shoulder, looking
back at me, laughing. Hurry up now darling, she says,
hurry, hurry, taking the house keys from my hands.
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On this day in:
2020: Oh, Robert Creeley
2019:It Was Summer Now and the Colored People Came Out Into the Sunshine, Morgan Parker
2018:In Two Seconds, Mark Doty
2017:Aubade, Louis MacNeice
2016:Before, Ada Limón
2015:Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt, David Bottoms
2014:Ullapool Bike Ride, Chris Powici
2013:Clothespins, Stuart Dybek
2012:Ghost Story, Matthew Dickman
2011:Graves We Filled Before the Fire, Gabrielle Calvocoressi
2010:On Being Asked To Write A Poem Against The War In Vietnam, Hayden Carruth
2009:The Bear-Boy of Lithuania, Amy Gerstler
2008:Today’s News, David Tucker
2007:All There is to Know About Adolph Eichmann, Leonard Cohen
2006:Gamin, Frank O’Hara
2005:[this is what you love: more people. you remember], D.A. Powell
Talking to my blood little sister who found me online. I’m so sorry he couldn’t be what we needed him to be. We’re so better off. But I am definitely listening to this and ALMOST crying. Daughters
Now more important than ever.