The Great Concavity

 I have done it again with my return Here, defacing another memory. Blurred body fracturing a gem of light That bursts against my skin, a gl...

Banded light breaking soft across his chest, He stands defaced and fixed like stone, as dawn Settles on our square, and workers, tourist...

Don DeLillo’s great strength as a writer is the quality of his prose, which at its best is simultaneously engaging and estra...

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Cynthia Ozick’s erudition is formidable, though it is not the claustral cerebration of Umberto Eco. It seems appropriate, ho...

Dear Person Reading This: I have started this blog to try to alleviate writer’s block, and to get me habitually producing work. It ...