June 5, 2017
Touchscreen Headstone: Speculations on the Digital Afterlife
“Eterni.me wants to rely on the real substance of twenty-first-century life: online activity. There are other companies that offer related services: Legacy Locker and Entrustnet allow users to nominate an […]
March 6, 2017
Painting the Since [Then]
This World is not Conclusion. A Species stands beyond – Invisible, as Music – But positive, as Sound – It beckons, and it baffles – —Emily Dickinson, “This World is not […]
August 26, 2016
Is Grief a Waiting
You hear the strange cricket in the oven sing, and ask what it sings. This is what it sings. —Frank Bidart, “The Third Hour of the Night” […]
August 31, 2015
Blog Discussion of Roger Rosenblatt’s Kayak Morning: Learning to Drift
Throughout this month, we’ll be using the blog to have a conversation about Roger Rosenblatt’s Kayak Morning. Rosenblatt will receive the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement in New York […]
October 8, 2010
I Was Frightened, And I Could Feel That
To start, a reader’s history (mine), and a sort of confession: the first book of Merwin’s I ever really loved was prose. This makes me feel at once exposed–for aren’t […]
February 15, 2010
Reading Ahead
Inspired by Cody’s lovely six-things list, a great post on The Millions, and those Valentine’s Day chocolate boxes where everybody bites half of everything looking for the caramels, I bring […]