LAST WORD Elegy for a Landline SHARON MESMER “It’s weird how sad I am,” I texted my nephew Nicholas on my iPhone as I waited for takeout in a Mexican restaurant. “I’m sad, too,” he...
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Silence & Contradiction SHARON MESMER Twenty years ago, I visited the Convento de San Miguel in Úbeda, where Spanish poet San Juan de la Cruz died in 1591. I’d hoped that witnessing the last...
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BOOKS She Can Do Anything SHARON MESMER YEAR OF THE MONKEY PATTI SMITH Knopf, $24.95, 192 pp. 2016 was a fabulous year. I'm using "fabulous" in the archaic sense of "known through fable."...
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