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Tony Bennett says he sees in Amy
Winehouse when they meet to record “Body
& Soul” in March 2011
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II. The Taiwan Blue
III. The Mint Bang
III. The Sitting Bull
IV. The Leather Eagle
II. THE TAIWAN BLUE
YOU DO NOT
REMEMBER
WHERE YOU WERE
OR WHEN IT WAS
THAT YOU FIRST
FOUND IT THERE.
BUT HERE I AM.
AND NOW
AND FROM
THIS POINT FORWARD
I’M GONNA GO
RIGHT AHEA...
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from Untitled, 2004
for Agnes Helen Mauldin Giffin
Some drugs make me go,
My God, death is everywhere
constantly present,
but then make me go, OK, fine,
let it come. I was sitting
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at Storm King,
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become a kind of evil giant
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Sandra Simonds
Sandra Simonds is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Atopia (Wesleyan University Press, 2019) and Orlando (Wave Books, 2018). You can follow her on Twitter @sandmansimonds.