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Andrew Shields

A Basler from Detroit.

Lyrics setting up the instrumental break in Greg Brown’s “Brand New ’64 Dodge” (1994)

“Onamatterpoetic” in James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" (1939)

“There’s a good time coming”: Emily Dickinson, The Hutchinson Family Singers, and Kellogg’s Corn Flakes

“There’s a good time coming”: Emily Dickinson, The Hutchinson Family Singers, and Kellogg’s Corn Flakes

My gradual reception of Swedish director Lasse Hallström’s work

For a writing exercise about melody, variations on the title of Paul McCartney’s “Eleanor Rigby"

“Out of the blue with some cock and bull story”: Two stock phrases in Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” (1967)