Poetry
… perform (for uptown clientele) on their waxy, abandoned bodies while their dream-life is adrift. He’s seen enough of … of the Goth arm of the lycanthropes—their shared sense of community and their preference for heraldic tableaux. If … ashamed: he has neither the courage nor the weakness to become that thing, in any all-defining way. He’s something …
Criticism
… Haddow’s observations, these infantile, solipsistic youth comprise, “a culture lost in the superficiality of its past … of the music is not palatable, some of the clothes look uncomfortable, but a journalist is supposed to dig a little … a lost generation,” he laments. “A defeated generation.” Wow. Really? Well then, I’m glad I’m either much older or …
Poetry
… Where the Hills Come Down Like A Lion’s Paw on Summer She’d rewritten her … erase so much and leave so little. . . . (Though it could comfort, too—as if a blessing rose from the white dust—when … was late October’s burnt-orange before the rains. Coming back, we half-saw something glide like a shadow over …
Criticism
… celle-ci, et quelques uutres, pour me aervir de documents. Comme au bord de la mer Sur le front de separation, Sur la f … A brisk walk is a song. Walking engenders creation. To compose while walking is as simple and as spontaneous as the … is restraint, Is return, so that never shall break The bodied oneness of water! To remain sea and yet not to lose La …
Poetry
… beach bars a patch of parasols their blue-striped petals folded around their stems the back of a row of villas And the sea eternal bit player who comes gray cat in search of her kittens abandoned on the … there the Christian, Arab and Jewish names of 1914’s soldiers (evacuated well to the rear, it seems) with …
Criticism
… Women I once asked my mother, a well-educated, exceedingly competent woman, why she served as someone’s assistant for … changes are necessary for women to flourish as professionals and mothers. But the core of the problem is more … who grew up black in the eighties, “raised on a steady diet of images that showed us as unworthy, …