Last Bender

Posted by jonfrankel on Nov 7, 2013 in Blogh, Poetry | 0 comments

Daurade has a great post on his work documenting the life and poetry of Alfred Starr Hamilton. Daurade and I...

Posted by jonfrankel on Nov 4, 2013 in Blogh, Poetry | 0 comments

It seems, reading over the last post, that I could have made my point faster, been clearer about what I...

Posted by jonfrankel on Nov 4, 2013 in Blogh, Poetry | 0 comments

WILD IS THE WIND: THE LYRIC POET IN AN AGE OF LANGUAGE Recently I read a blog piece on the Harriet Blog...

Posted by jonfrankel on Oct 29, 2013 in Blogh | 1 comment

Many important, famous people have and will eulogize Lou Reed. Yet I feel like his music, both with The...

Posted by jonfrankel on Oct 17, 2013 in Poetry | 2 comments

THAT I did love you once and every leaf shook with your breath. Between us lay delicious heresy, a bed of...

Posted by jonfrankel on Oct 10, 2013 in Blogh | 3 comments

REVOLUTION I donâ€™t believe in revolution. But revolution is not a belief dependent phenomenon. Revolution...

Posted by jonfrankel on Sep 30, 2013 in Poetry | 0 comments

TRANQUILITY The living tree Rings up years In narrow bands The time we see Is parsed by gears With minute...

Posted by jonfrankel on Sep 23, 2013 in Blogh, Food | 1 comment

It is now commonplace to say that human beings require narrative to understand things. Cognitively we...

The Swans