Teaser quote: “We took it as axiomatic that nerds are incapable of drawing conclusions that would tend to banish the concept of genius….”
[originally posted, Wednesday 15 March 2017]
On Rhyme
An essay collection edited by David Caplan, from Presses Universitaires Liège, containing a chapter by me (title: "Seventeen Quotations and Commentary").
The book will supposedly be available Tuesday 14 March 2017. ISBN: 978-2-87562-125-2.
Here's the cover:
A Gallery of Rhymes from Palgrave’s Golden Treasury, Book I
On Plume.
Teaser quote: “You know that famous quote, where some French poet said that God gives you the first rhyme word, but the poet himself must provide the second—? The Augustan poet worked hard to make it look like just the opposite was happening. The poet throws down the first rhyme word, and then a Voice from the Unfathomable gracefully and elegantly provides the second.”
[originally posted, Thursday 2 March 2017]
Rumi, Machado & Co.
New essay on The Paris Review Daily.
Teaser quote: “Would he really use a construction like I caught the happy virus.”
[posted on The Paris Review Daily, Wednesday 1 March 2017]
A poem called “Flying Ants”
Posted today on Gramma.
Teaser quote: “I’m already in hell: You can tell by what I’m ashamed of.”
[posted Thursday 17 February 2017]
I Must Enter Again the Round Zion of the Water Bead
New essay on The Paris Review Daily.
Teaser quote: “Our little Joan ignores the cats, / Ignites a satisfying match. / It sputters, flickers, pops and jets: / It’s fun as good as ever gets.”
[posted on Paris Review Daily, Wednesday 15 February 2017]
My new book is available for preorder, as of today.
At least for now, it's $10, free shipping, straight from Canarium. The books will be going into their bubble envelopes in two weeks or less.
Here is an image of the front cover:
“Pavese’s English” at *Paris Review Daily*
Here's the link.
Teaser quote: “I’ve got now I can no more take a pull out of a bottle together with my gang, without thinking I’m going on the grand sneak.”
“March Casebook” at *The Point*
A set of quasi-kōans, published summer 2016, in the Chicago arts and commentary magazine The Point.
Teaser quote: “An idiot who was always wrong and who didn’t know anything said…”