Nonfiction
Autumn 1989
The Long Embrace: Philip Levine’s Longer Poems
I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, ‘a long poem,’ is simply a flat contradiction in terms,” wrote Edgar Allen Poe in his […]
Poetry
Summer 1987
What to Listen For
Who listens when we talk? This is a questionPascal asked, and answered only with the safebet that someone must, and the question I askedwhen I went through the rain this […]
Poetry
Summer 1987
Unable to Refuse
Some places we can’t refuse. This is the nightI never arrived, never called, and even a few hours afterthe storm the trees are trying to tell me thingsI don’t want […]