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Philip Levine

Submitted by Blas Manuel on 15 February, 2015 - 4:39pm.

Careful Fear and Dead Devotion

Submitted by Blas Manuel on 8 March, 2014 - 11:07pm.

And if you want to see me cry,

play Let It Be or Nevermind.

—The National, "Don't Swallow the Cap"

The Knowing

Submitted by Blas Manuel on 31 August, 2013 - 8:45pm.

I know it and I know I know it. What good is it to know?
—Hayden Carruth,
Loneliness: An Outburst of Hexasyllables

What good does knowing do?
—Jason Isbell,
Traveling Alone

Henry James

Submitted by Blas Manuel on 20 March, 2012 - 9:05pm.

Sorrow comes in great waves — no one can know that better than you — but
it rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us it leaves us on
the spot and we know that if it is strong we are stronger, inasmuch as
it passes and we remain.

The New Poet Laureate

Submitted by Blas Manuel on 9 August, 2011 - 7:04pm.

The Year in Music: 2009

Submitted by Blas Manuel on 2 January, 2010 - 12:51am.

Whatever It Was That Made You Love Them in the First Place

Submitted by Blas Manuel on 25 November, 2009 - 11:12pm.

Forever Ago: The New Additions

Submitted by Blas Manuel on 24 September, 2009 - 11:29pm.

The National

Submitted by Blas Manuel on 8 January, 2014 - 7:27pm. 
Looking for somewhere to stand and stay,
I leaned on the wall and the wall leaned away.
—The National, Slow Show

Ushio Shinohara

Submitted by Blas Manuel on 10 November, 2013 - 3:49pm.

You throw yourself away to be an artist.

—Ushio Shinohara

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