April 23, 2012
The Two Unsurpassable Poems in the English Language
Every successful poem is unsurpassable in its own way. Even a brief rhyme, like— John Donne, Anne Donne, Undone. —cannot be improved upon, repeated, or replicated. It is a […]
July 31, 2010
Cephalopod Appreciation
The lovely and inimitable Betsey Brock recently demonstrated how a video of a boy seeing lobsters for the first time lets us witness firsthand a human experiencing the Sublime. Edmund […]
August 19, 2009
“Body My House My Horse My Hound” – The Whole by Its Parts, Part II
In May Swenson‘s poem “Question,” she asks: Body my house my horse my hound what will I do when you are fallen To come closer to understanding something (in the […]
July 13, 2009
Une Explosion Est Toujours Possible
Reading Hugh Campbell’s La Dynamite in my high school french class — a story about two workers driving a truck full of TNT across a treacherous landscape — I learned […]