
A Short Organon: ‘Poetic Integrity’
I was asked by Denver’s Westerlind (via e-mail) about my thoughts on ‘poetic integrity.’ At once I felt a real clarity and …
I was asked by Denver’s Westerlind (via e-mail) about my thoughts on ‘poetic integrity.’ At once I felt a real clarity and …
Ravi Shankar vs. Aandaal, eighth-century female saint. A translation from Tamil to English presented in Cortland Review’s ‘Summer Feature: In …
Signs Threading the palm, a web of little lines Spells out the lost money, the heart, the head, The wagging …
Without minimizing the joy and magic that poetry enacts in place, there is the further possibility that poetry can do more than entertain …
Simone Weil, in The Iliad, or The Poem of Force, writes ‘And as for the soul, what an extraordinary house it …
Elegy in a Spider’s Web What to say when the spider Say when the spider what When the spider the …
Let’s be frank: the ‘edgy’ in poetry is a called-for characteristic of the most nebulous sort. Yet a cursory look …
A poem that draws anxiety to the widths of a wire, Henri Cole’s “City Horse” is achievement in both run-on form …