William Logan’s most recent book of poetry is Rift of Light (Penguin, 2017); his most recent book of criticism, Broken Ground: Poetry and the Demon of History (Columbia University Press, 2021). He teaches at the University of Florida.
Poetry
Winter 2023
In Memoriam, In Advance
Haud muto factum There was the taste, bitter, hanging in the air like the memory of invasion. The dry rushes rattled, the moon almost transparent in daylight. Cut in sand, […]
Poetry
Nov/Dec 2017
Summer in the Ordinary
Eppur si muove The iris wavers as the fox trots by, mornings in paradise, or what pretends by any other name to smell of meat. What were we then that […]
Poetry
Summer 2009
Winter without Memory
From the bricked arch of the Victorian bridge, we gazed down the muddy lane, channeled through the yews with a carpenter’s eye, as dusk slowly took the skies behind us. […]
Poetry
Summer 2007
The Imitation of Things Familiar
England At dawn, the doves practice their imitations of owls or their American cousins, featureless as souls. How did they spot us, fresh off airport ramps, our passports steaming with […]
Poetry
Summer 2002
Lake
April. Shadows crimson-edged, tattooed with light, corrupt the visible in sweet intimacy. Nature's tamed backyard with ruined barbecue falls toward the sinkhole lake, cricket frogs creaking through the reeds, a […]
Poetry
Summer 2002
Eve
I never knew what you saw in yourself, but you'd have given yourself lovely notices, counting my ribs to see if one were missing. The hot and bothered noons lure […]
Poetry
Summer 2000
Open Day at the Natural History Museum
The blue-tongued skink quivered in expectation, its tongue a tiny postage stamp from the glossy definitives of Ghana. Blue snails slid a glass wall’s speckled damp. The diamondback stretched on […]
Poetry
Summer 2000
Ca d’Oro
Calm. Meditation. Across the Grand Canal, the open fretwork winkles the noonday sun. Where once the loggias were slipped with gold, the praise of Ruskin fixed the modern line, wringing […]