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Karin Roffman

Upstate New York

Karin Roffman's first book is From the Modernist Annex: American Women Writers in Museums and Libraries (University of Alabama Press) and will be published in May, 2010. An essay on John Ashbery is forthcoming in Raritan. She is an Assistant Professor of English at West Point.

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Hudson house, final entry--metal desk lamp

Unlike most people’s houses, personal photographs do not adorn the mantels or the walls of the Hudson house offering snapshots from a life, yet the house is very personal. Photographs do not offer narratives of a life in this house--but... Continue reading

Posted Apr 3, 2010 at The Best American Poetry

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Hudson house--Wallpaper [by Karin Roffman]

In An Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein suggests she learned to write by looking at walls. About 1903, she and her brother Leo began amassing what became one of greatest collections of modernist paintings. She wrote in the... Continue reading

Posted Apr 1, 2010 at The Best American Poetry

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Hudson house, second floor landing [by Karin Roffman]

For today’s blog on objects from Ashbery’s Hudson house, I thought I’d walk down the attic steps to the second floor landing. The landing is large. All the rooms on the second floor have doors off the landing. There are... Continue reading

Posted Mar 30, 2010 at The Best American Poetry

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Hudson house, Attic [by Karin Roffman]

Doorway to John Ashbery's Hudson, NY home. Photo(c)Ahndraya Parlato I want to thank David Lehman and Stacey Harwood for inviting me to blog about John Ashbery’s Hudson, New York home, and I want to particularly thank John Ashbery and David... Continue reading

Posted Mar 28, 2010 at The Best American Poetry

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