May 16, 2016
What a Wicked Game
I have come a long way, to surrender my shadow To the shadow of a horse —James Wright, “Sitting in a small screenhouse on a summer morning” You finish this […]
December 27, 2015
An End In Itself
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. — Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho I’ve been thinking about failure all month, ever since I wrote about it in the […]
April 2, 2012
Infinite Books: The Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert
I don’t remember where I first came across Jack Gilbert’s work, but I do know I was the student who checked both his Views of Jeopardy and Monolithos out from […]