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To these ears, this is just inches shy of insufferable—too cute, too precious, too fey. But those inches make all the difference. As it is, I find it beguiling.

Clare and the Reasons, “Wake Up (You Sleepyhead),” 2009

For those who’re interested in such genealogical details (and are old enough to remember), Clare is the daughter of Geoff Muldaur.

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Utterly unbelievable, incontrovertibly real: his poems, at their best, have the associative logic of a dream.

Russell Edson, “Let Us Consider”