Teaser quote: “Why would a goddess steal a hunchback’s sheep? and naked?”
Interview with the Neanderthal
Teaser quote:
INTERVIEWER
But let’s not get distracted. You’re essentially saying you can access memories from past lives. Is that correct?
THE NEANDERTHAL
Yes. I mean, that’s misleading to put it that way, because these “past lives” were not me. It’s not like my personality existed forty thousand years ago. But I can access, I’m convinced, personalities and events that occurred at the time when the Neanderthal species—as a distinct thing—ceased to exist.
[originally posted Wednesday 14 May 2017]
Five Complaints, Containing sundrie small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie
On the Paris Review Daily.
Teaser quote: “In 1948, T. S. Eliot got up there at the Library of Congress and gave an address so witheringly condescending to Edgar Allan Poe that I felt angry reading it. What do I care about Edgar Allan Poe? Yet I felt angry.”
[originally posted Wednesday 31 May 2017]
Five limericks with pictures by Mark Fletcher
In the Paris Review Daily.
Teaser quote: “Some days I made four or five limericks, or four or five versions of the same limerick, texting every one of ’em to the people in my life who, in my judgment, did not then and do not now deserve God’s mercy.”
[originally posted Wednesday 17 May 2017]
A poem called “Drop-Menu Scheduling Calendar with Only One Black-out Date”
In the Brooklyn Review.
Teaser quote: “When he took me out with his people, you could see he was ashamed of me. The next youngest guy there was twenty years older than I….”
[originally posted Monday 8 May 2017]
“H.D. Notebook”
Teaser quote: “I don’t like biographies wherein the subject has no stupid ideas, is never self-deceived, and is never a source of legitimate grievance to anyone. To watch a biographer protect her subject from all negative interpretations, and even from the other characters in the story—this is a most unedifying spectacle…”
[originally posted Wednesday 3 May 2017]
A poem called “Siebenundvierzig”
The Iowa Review is posting a new poem every day, all through April.
Teaser quote: “This is that mind-reading, I’m-sicking-demons-on-my-enemies style of Buddhism.”
[originally posted Saturday 1 April 2017]
I'm to be in the next issue of VOLT.
“Five Public Cases on Intelligence”
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…”