Echoes of Emily
This morning I was dipping into Emily Dickinson’s Complete Poems, and I found by chance the…
Emily’s Enigma
The enigma of Emily Dickinson for me is how she shows that the very act of…
Poetry: to redeem or to love the world?
Featured on aldaily.com today is an article from The Atlantic with the provocative title of “why…
Donne’s sermons and the blogging tradition
Image Source: Oil Painting, John Donne (1573-1631), at the age of 49. Anon. British School, 1622. Victoria…
Belated
Another poem today from the collection I am curating, and have titled The Burning Archive. This…
The forest
This morning I have spent curating my collection of poems, The Burning Archive. From this collection,…
Akhmatova’s Agony
Late last week I rearranged my desk and put in place several mementoes of my single…
Parables of Shame
Franz Kafka was a poet of shame and guilt. So writes Saul Friedlander in his Franz Kafka:…
A list of writers of fragments
A blog is a fragmentary artwork, or at least it can be. So the blog’s aesthetic…
The glass half full
For my post tonight, a poem I wrote a couple of years ago, prompted by Wallace…