Essay |
“Self-Portrait as Blue Self-Portrait: on Noémi Lefebvre, Shame, and Schoenberg”
“… imposter-syndrome feelings constitute the book: worried woman-as-intellectual-outsider; obsessive, anxious woman re-writing previous social encounters; woman apologizing for her opinions …”
Poetry |
Four Poems
Poetry |
“A Letter to Lucie About Lucie”
Poetry |
“Fine”
Poetry |
“Awful Precinct”
Poetry |
“The Wax Museum”
Poetry |
Three Poems
Essay |
“The Habits of Eating”
“All that summer after what’s proved to be only a prelude to an endless Mideast war, my children claimed we were the only family they knew that ate dinner together.”
Poetry |
“My Two Sleeps”
Poetry |
from “The Fourth Moment”
Essay |
“Bad Blood”
“Whereof we cannot speak, silence discovers a word. The Bible says this was true in the beginning. All real poets have said this, too, and all their work is a demonstration of its truth. It is no wonder that philosophers, insofar as they are committed to demonstrate the opposite, hate poets.”
Poetry |
on From the Book of Giants, poems by Joshua Weiner
It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward." As a stylish statement, those sentences suggest that Frost took himself as a pithy speaker dizzied by circuitous thought, steadied by belief in progression, poem by poem. If we take Frost at his word, then every choice of subject, phrase, rhythm, and tone…