Criticism
… greeted him as if he were a serious poet. Like an elder, he also offered advice. “You don’t really have anything to … in poetry, Merwin continued at the trade, working in a comically diverse array of languages: French, German, … keenly. “To My Brother Hanson,” addressed to a sibling who died in childbirth, Merwin’s lines hint at the scale of his …
Fiction
… it, offers a momentary refuge. Still, this training must commence, and Stein is beginning to emit the barely audible … waits. He can hear the pages of the textbook so recently studied being flipped through in Averill’s mind; Averill, not a … Getting a cheap little thrill and clothing it in the false honor of war puffed with self-righteousness. So fuck …
Criticism
… Zielinski, Bronislaw, suggests autobiography to HRH, 742; commissioned to prepare index, 748; warns of suppression … Laura have been disappointed. This is okay; if Laura disappoints as a literary work it’s because of the simple fact that the author died well before he could finish and revise it (and revise …
Poetry
… my life out. . . . Then I remembered: My grandfather had died a week ago and I had forgotten to milk the cows! I ran …
Criticism
… modern science writer. In Microbe Hunters , published in 1926, de Kruif set the standard for how to convey the … Doll, whose children, for the most part, die in utero because most of them were either missing a … publications, writing blog posts on the New Yorker website that were eerily similar to other posts and articles …
Poetry
… July 27th, 1919: Eugene Williams, 17, found dead at the 26th Street Beach, who apparently drowned after being struck …