Nonfiction
Spring 1983
The Forest for the Trees: Preliminary Thoughts on Evaluating the Long Poem
It is at once disturbing and revealing to find that contemporary attitudes toward the long poem still basically derive from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Poetic Principle,” published over 150 years […]
Contemporary American Poetry
Summer 1982
From the Space Sonnets
I would like you to walk into a science fiction painting. There is a huge monastery at its center, built around a gigantic telescope. The road you are on approaches […]