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Introduction: Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home

By Constance Jaeggi

This folio pairs my photographic portraits of US-based escaramuzas with commissioned poetry by the Mexican American poets ire’ne lara silva and Angelina Sáenz. 

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Alice Neel’s Late Self-Portrait

By William J. Harris
I will paint
Myself as
An old woman

Naked

Looking
Like
A kindly
Gray-haired
Red, green and tan
Beach ball
Sitting on a striped
Chair

How revealing
How honest
How beautiful
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By Fatimah Asghar & Eve L. Ewing

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T.S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

By Peter O’Leary

One of the most famous poems in English, one of the first encounters readers have with modern poetry—and may have even invented modern poetry.

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"And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor – And this, and so much more? --"

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