A Belly Full of Frogs
Mind and Body: The Anatomy of Melancholy It is natural, at this time of year, with a fire burning and snow through the night and Saturnine skies, to turn to Burton for...
Read MoreOld Dexterities in Witchery Gone: Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy These are perfect sonnets by the master. His thought is crabbed, his metre a little eccentric at times, so that he reminds me of Emily Dickinson, but also...
Read MoreIn Memoriam, Tim Congdon
Tim Congdon Tim sent me this in February of 2008. I will miss him. He ‘tore through the iron gates of time’. My love to Zach, who lost a father. The rest of us lost...
Read More3 Berry Place, Darwin, Australia, 1983
This is a quixotic post, more personal than I usually do, and really, it’s just a signal sent out into the void, hoping for contact with anyone who lived at 3...
Read MoreRadical Conservative
Studs Terkel used to describe himself as a radical conservative. Radical, in the sense of ‘root’, and conservative, in the sense of preserving this root. I am...
Read MoreHeard Ward
Over at Cahiers de Corey Josh has a post about poetry that just depresses the hell out of me, though maybe it’s just the jolly season that has me so down. He seems to...
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