In tribute to your God-like ability: http://www.lit-hum.org/2010/11/how-shakespeare-changes-us-theatre-of.html

All day long, week in, week out, I look across from my studio table at the forbidding drab gray façade of the huge Manhattan Storage and War...

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In the space between literature and politics, or between poetry and history, the possibilities for meaning and action are much less determ...

We are preoccupied with events, even when we do not observe them closely. We have a sense of upheaval. We feel threatened. We look from an u...

...I slowly raised my mournful eyes, ringed with great bluish circles, towards the inverted bowl of the firmament, and dared to try and pene...

     A real diehard, indestructible, irresolvable obsession in a poet is nothing less than a blessing.  The poet with an obsession never has...

Original draft according to Curtis Bradford: This is no country for old men – if our Lord Smiles Is a smiling child upon his mother’s knees...

     Martin Buber's I and Thou philosophy is based on a moment when Buber failed to say “Here I am” to one of his students.  Buber, the ...

The modern muse . . . will realize that everything in creation is not humanly beautiful , that the ugly exists beside the beautiful, the uns...

If the real world is not altogether rejected, it is but touched here and there, and into the places we have left empty we summon rhythm, bal...

Henry is very sure that something is happening, but he doesn't understand it at all. He watches things very, very carefully, because he...

Eden time They spent every day, blissfully ignorant, in amorous delay. Temp time Will I be alive when the twelve-heade...

Roast beef on whole wheat, please, With lettuce, mayonnaise and a center slice Of beefsteak tomato. The lettuce splayed, if you will, In a ...