A book review
of David Biespiel’s new book, Republic Cafe..….
Tall Ships
15. Tall ships have uses even seen as films or memories sailing out…
a fine poem by Patricia Smith
see here, about poetry being heard…..
April Sonnets (cont’d.)
12. A plaintive cry, a bit of blond rope hung from a tower window a passing prince broke its low door found a panel flung it…
What Have You Heard?
What have you heard? Rhododendron’s thin lipped buds have burst permitting small white tongues to thrust out, startle us like pumpkins emerging from pea pods. January…
Among The Filthy, Filthy Too
via Among The Filthy, Filthy Too A poet of human monuments, a worthy life…..
Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries
This huge novel (1719 pages) is my fiction reading for the current year. Written in German in the 1970’s and 80’s, published in German in 4…
On Rene Girard
If you don’t know this remarkable French thinker, or if you do but only a little, here is a review of a new bio on him.
Bordering on Emptiness
Passages have no closely-watched borders a riverbank dissolves when closely seen as moments of seeing rabbit, hedgehog, owl in moonlight night pales into morning; then the…
Interview with poets
An interview with Sedar Sigo….. Some useful points here….
The Dog Star 