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ā€œDismal Situationsā€: Loneliness, Racism, and Knowing the Present Through Verse

By Jack Chelgren | Special Projects Intern and Contributing Writer   As a word is mostly connotation, Ā matter is mostly aura? Ā Halo? (The same loneliness that separates me Ā from what I call ā€œthe world.ā€) — Rae Armantrout, ā€œA Resemblanceā€   I. It’s afternoon not long ago. I’m listening to music in my apartment, and ā€œThe Last Time I Saw Richard,ā€ the closer from Joni Mitchell’s Blue, comes on. The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in ’68 And he told me, ā€œAll romantics meet the same fate someday: Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafĆ©.ā€