Monthly Archives: September 2009

One Year Later: Are You OK?

I’m sitting in exactly the same spot I was exactly one year ago when I heard the news that David Foster Wallace was dead. A touch of frost this morning weighs down the blotted yellow leaves that are already barely … Continue reading

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Why I Go Into Hiding

Discussions that contain words like these are a good example of why I find it hard (if not impossible) to remain engaged in most discussion communities: “Such discussions (about what’s a visual poem, what’s not) are like pinhead-angel discussions to … Continue reading

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“Unguent” (Heather McHugh)

Instead of angels, give us aero-  gels. Diaphanous as surfaces of soap,  lightest of the solids on this earth,  an aerogel won’t burn, beneath our most  insistent blowtorch. We created it to be  a lightweight indestructibility,  just as we did … Continue reading

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