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Free tickets for Bualadh Boston are now available! See Paul Muldoon, @RobertPinsky Mary Costello, @sallyrooney Molly McCloskey, Alvin Jackson & @BostonGlobe columnist Kevin Cullen.

Free tickets for Bualadh Boston are now available! See Paul Muldoon, @RobertPinsky Mary Costello, @sallyrooney Molly McCloskey, Alvin Jackson & @BostonGlobe columnist Kevin Cullen. | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
Lining up plans in Boston? Whether you're a local, new in town, or just passing through, you'll be sure to find something on Eventbrite that piques your interest.
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Robert Pinsky on “Cascando” by Samuel Beckett - A Classic Love Poem Wracked by Its Own Contradictions

Robert Pinsky on “Cascando” by Samuel Beckett - A Classic Love Poem Wracked by Its Own Contradictions | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
Here is a love poem, clear-eyed yet passionate, personal and impersonal in ways I admire: “Cascando” by Samuel Beckett. The poem’s intensity and misgivings are epitomized by the invented word at the end of its first stanza. “Wordshed,” on the model of “bloodshed,” generates associations of violent conflict; from another...
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