Dom Deluise, RIP
 For a while in the late seventies and early eighties, among certain people in a variety of places, Dom Deluise became a sort of shorthand for everything that was...
Read MoreFurther Thornts on the Novel
theory and the novel  The divide between those who take a theoretical approach to the novel or poetry and those who take an empirical one might appear to be...
Read MoreThe Meme of Aesthetic Boredom
Boredom in Art  Josh Corey’s remarks about his own boredom with the novel remind me of David Foster Wallace’s boredom, discussed at length in the recent New...
Read MoreMyth in Poetry: In Lieu of a Rant
Myth in Poetry  When poets reject myth they are rejecting poetry itself, since poetry and myth are intimately intertwined. A poetry without myth is a poetry of the...
Read More“Fast, Cheap and Out of Control”
“Fast, Cheap and Out of Control† This weekend my mother handed me an article she had clipped as I ran out the door of her apartment. I know I’m not the only...
Read MoreDark Was The Jayle
Robert Herrick 1591-1674  Herrick is a poet I have loved since my early twenties, but I’m not sure how I found him. Perhaps in a Norton Anthology? Or Ezra Pound’s...
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