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“So get into my death car, everyone, and I will drive you through the flood.”
The Paris Review promotes the most exciting writers of the day and supports inquisitive readers the world over.
“The terms ‘mother’ and ‘father’ have the same dominant energy as ‘God’ or ‘the Devil’ in a poem.”
“It started with what / and went from there.”
“Conformation shows measure the degree to which a dog ‘conforms’ to its ‘breed standard,’ a document that transmutes historical function into marketable qualities.”
“I wondered briefly what fear was. Where on earth did it come from?”
“In the watercolors and drawings in Influences, which Owens made on paper the size of the Review’s pages, she revisits some of the experiences that have shaped her own work.”
“The kids saw the scars on his fingers, that big slice on his pinkie, proof of his diligent practice morning, midday, afternoon, and night.”