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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…
Essay |
Friday Night Fights in Florida: Contention From Wallace Stevens to Jay Hopler
Wallace Stevens traveled to Florida as a businessman for the first time in 1922, and took two-to-three-week winter trips there for the next twenty years, leaving the wife at home. His right hand broke on making contact with Hemingway's jaw at a hotel bar in Key West in 1936, so one assumes he came to…