… about Williams is to reveal him as psychologically more complex than we may have suspected, but intellectually … Waste Land footnote directing him to consult “ Aeneid, I, 726.” As a self-made American artist consciously isolated … much traduced, lived the latter years of his life and died.” But the reader of the poem gets no Camden, no …
Essays
… me to two women savaged eleven years apart. These women comprise the central myth of my life. I want to honor them … and hopeful—in fierce men and women. My father died in ’65. I spent the next twelve years in a near-insane … was a pie-faced Irish girl with bad teeth and asthma. She died at twenty-two. The L.A. Herald called her a “Romance …
Poetry
… at the AWP Conference in Washington DC this weekend, please come out tomorrow, Saturday, February 5, to hear four poets … It’s an all-star line-up, featuring work from the VQR website by Kwame Dawes, Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, and Natasha Trethewey. Erika Meitner will also be debuting a work-in-progress from the upcoming Spring …
… A Skit-Scat Societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals? But what about animals’ cruelty to humans? What about … kitten, a waif and stray — hence her name!—of the perfectly common or garden grey-and-white variety, alone and … — how can one accept what is already his? She is finished, complete, perfect. Her slightest movement, the faintest …
… stated simply: what function can a representative assembly composed of politicians, not of social scientists, perform … elections, though real and adequate for scoring debating points, did not, however, obviate the evils which flowed … or speakers advocating a higher scale of allowances to soldiers’ dependents. The government retracted. In its revised …
Reporting
… Getting My Press Credentials In the coming days, Dimiter Kenarov will be blogging … Zone is still a mythical labyrinth of blast walls, check points, and armed guards from Uganda, Colombia, and El … Getting My Press Credentials …