October 3, 2016
Contemporary Ekphrasis
Last week at the Montana Book Festival the poet Michael Earl Craig and I conducted a workshop entitled “Contemporary Ekphrasis,” and for funsies I thought I’d post my “lecture” notes […]
June 1, 2010
A Little Bell
I feel bad for any chimpanzee who hasn’t read The Sheltering Sky, or any dolphin who doesn’t desire this dolphin’s art, that one’s scope, the friends possessed of another. The […]
May 14, 2010
Things You Only See Through Other Things
Things you only see through other things (so begins at least a thousand words, over several posts, to get at the reason my girlfriend loves Cordwainer Smith). For example: Magritte, […]