Fiction |
“At The Last”
“‘I don’t want to be married anymore.’ Is that how he said it? Or was it the harder, the more particular, ‘I don’t want to be married to you anymore’? He doesn’t remember.”
Poetry |
“The Auspices”
Poetry |
Five Poems by Sergei Yesenin
“Yesenin called himself ‘the last poet of the village,’ both in the sense of his peasant origins and of being the last poet of his contemporaries concerned with country life …”
Poetry |
“The Terminal”
Fiction |
“Fisher Queen,” “High Priestess” and “The Tale of the Plague Doctor”
“… until one day I go to the spring house and there is a man in the water, naked, with silver minnows darting around his face, moss streaming around him …”
Poetry |
“Assisted Living”
Fiction |
“The vibraphone of God”
“The Kid, he had drive. He would flip what records he had until his dad could take him out to see more stacks.”
Poetry |
Selections from études
Poetry |
“The Middle 1950s”
Essay |
“Russian Lines and American Lines: Traveling America with Sergey Gandlevsky”
“The name Gandlevsky comes from the Ukrainian word meaning revenue or earnings. They must have been peddlers of some sort. ‘Do you know what this means?’ he explained. ‘I was born to be a charlatan!'”