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….
How To Eat
Poems get written from watching closely as things happen each its own yet entangled with the rest of us and working with those links. Most experiences…
Over Here
A wall of clocks in an antique shop consuming the time they make self-feeders accurate within a century or two no two read quite the same…
After Easter
salvation offered needs another name whose syllables like fingers search the patch of mud we trample daily as unchanged not needing labels useless loss…
O Reader
O reader, poem’s art-imated ear settles as ours not effortless but joined to our confusions as her own, not clear but clearing, wanting all…
Breaking the Line
1. The bridges are still burning over the Rhine, the Seine, the Tennessee our running feet can barely take the heat, our shoes…
The Dog Star 