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… tradition of those three masters, and avoid such excesses common to lesser practitioners as lack of organization; and … of the movement, still struggling after the movement’s goals of real equality—some in small, local endeavors, some in … that gripped so many of my generation. This, combined with my interest as a doctor in how people cope in …

… reason photographing at night is so addictive. The camera becomes the youthful eye. The camera is an owl. We are shown … is because your red cones are now exhausted. Certain animals have more cone receptors than humans do and can see well … rare. In the time it took to write this sentence, somebody died, somebody was born, a language disappeared, a forest …

… of Lincoln Steffens. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. 2 vols. $7.50. Autobiography is a difficult art, … which tended to run out of all human control; and he died an exile in the country which his family had done so … gave him a hundred dollars and carte blanche to do or die as he chose, a rather severe decision for a young man …

… Introspectivist agenda for an intimate, experiential, embodied poetry, which rejected symbolic formalisms, but they … lover and a caring mother, and the roles don’t always sit comfortably together. How ruefully she acknowledges the … wheel, and I don’t regret it. Does it matter what a flower dies of—​ autumn, a storm wind. And you, my storm wind, are …

… boy can muster, I saw those English teachers as criminals who had stolen books I would have enjoyed beside a … and generally making everyone else’s experience a drag. I complained loudly that Homer was wasting valuable time by … The Lifetime Reading Plan (1999 edition, the year he died) and Harold Bloom’s  How to Read and Why  (2002). ——— …