A snail pulls
Long at its home
Like Bogie at
His Camel
Before his line:
A desultory trailer
Fading in
Dry air
Posted August 30, 2007.
There is little proof that Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins, contemporaries who led single and relatively reclusive lives writing poetry on opposite sides of the Atlantic, met and wedded and produced children. In fact, the only proof I’ve found to support this absurd claim is the poetry … [Read More...]
January 27, 2012 Leave a Comment
On Santorum vs. Paul: Lincoln vs. Douglas? In last night's Jacksonville debate, Santorum again went out of his way to espouse natural law principles. Asked how his faith might influence him as president, he immediately veered from the question to make the case for reading the Declaration of … [Read more]
October 9, 2011 2 Comments
On Voir Dire (and critic George Steiner's aversion to critics). Here's artist and theorist Wassily Kandinsky on art historians: Art historians . . . write books full of praise and deep sentiments -- about an art that yesterday was regarded as senseless. By means of these books, they remove the … [Read more]
August 13, 2011 6 Comments
On Texas’s successive secessions. A potential secessionist is now a potential president. James Buchanan is considered one of our worst presidents in large part because he didn’t think he could resist secession. But even Buchanan never suggested secession as an option, as Mr. Perry has. The … [Read more]
August 5, 2011 Leave a Comment
On Hope & the photograph. I just discovered Peter Schjeldahl talking about John Berger talking about Franz Hals in this week’s New Yorker as part of his review of the Met's current Hals show. Schjeldahl and I wrote about different Berger essays on Hals, and I spared you Berger’s political … [Read more]
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