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On Paul Metcalf’s Genoa
Metcalf’s “poeticized collage” reckons with his great-grandfather, Herman Melville. Paul Metcalf It is extremely rare, these days, to encounter something that feels completely new. That is, most...
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A portrait of Maria Gansevoort Melville by Ezra Ames, ca. 1815. Yesterday we posted Rick Moody’s introduction to Genoa: A Telling of Wonders, a searching 1965 novel by Paul Metcalf in which he grapples...
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