April 20, 2019
On Slow Reading, Considering, and Consuming
It’s long been understood that going to an art museum doesn’t necessarily mean one desires to look at art, at least not for prolonged, potentially edifying periods. Articles like Artnet’s […]
January 20, 2018
Interview with Andrew Seguin
Combining the poetic, photographic and historic, Andrew Seguin’s collection The Room In Which I Work (winner of the 2015 Omnidawn Open Book Contest) is immersive on a variety of different […]
December 1, 2017
On Mitski, Anne Carson and failure
Sitting at my desk trying to focus, trying to write, I keep going back to two interviews. The first, by the amazing musician Mitski (check out Bury Me at Makeout […]
March 26, 2015
Beknowst & Un-
(Part 2 of 2 on the fragment) Scripted mostly on used envelopes, or the odd chocolate wrapper, the collected fragments left by Emily Dickinson comprise some of the most famous […]
October 6, 2012
Unwriting the Books of the Dead: Anne Carson and Robert Currie on Translation, Collaboration, and History
Before Anne Carson took the odes of Gaius Valerius Catullus as cartographical tools for navigating the all-too-unmappable space of her brother Michael’s death, Louis Zukofsky translated them. In the preface to […]
September 29, 2012
The hidden substance of absence: an interview with Brian Henry
Brian Henry’s Lessness is a book that eats itself, a catalog of wounds both festering and healing—though when they do heal, they heal to be torn open again. In Lessness, […]
January 19, 2012
A thousand words, a single elegy
I expected only dust when I opened the old photo album, but inside its plastic sleeves were the faces of a family. I flipped through the pages; they depicted a […]