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| ‘Under the Spell of Shoe’ – by Liam Rector | |
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I’ve made a point, over the years, perhaps even a moral point, Was once when I was living alone, house-sitting a Jamesian And they went up to bed. The woman left her pair of shoes on One of the shoes, and I held the shoe, and, staring deeply into what I imagined her and me fucking each other senseless. It was |
About the AuthorLiam Rector is the 1998 recipient of the Pen/ New England Award. His first book of poems was The Sorrow of Architecture, and he was editor of The Day I Was Older: On the Poetry of Donald Hall. He has received fellowships in poetry from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he has administered literary programs at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Academy of American Poets, Associated Writing Programs, and elsewhere. He has taught at Goucher College, George Mason University, and Phillips Academy and is currently the Director of the Writing Seminars at Bennington College. He took graduate degrees from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He now resides in Massachusetts.
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