Pulchritudinous from the OED: Beautiful, graceful, or fine in any way. as in 1912 L.J. Vance Destroying Angel xv. 217, I love my love with a P because he's Perfectly Pulchritudinous and Possesses the Power of Pleasing. as in beautiful, beatific, beat. as in Amiri Baraka "Ka'Ba": "We are beautiful...
Alice Notley Reading, June 24, 2008, 8 p.m., Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado Appropriately, this review of Alice Notley's reading last night is accompanied by the pop-up noir art of Thomas Allen, an American artist who takes the covers of old pulp novels and cuts them up into three-dimensional...
Two years ago, when I was eighteen, I was in love with my professor. It was springtime and the trees were full of pink apple blossoms. I ran two miles to his house to see him. When I got there he told me to sit on the ottoman next to his armchair and there I perched, clasping my hands until they...
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