Category: poetry
The Wounded Root
Both Edmond Jabès’s The Book of Questions and Jacques Derrida’s “Edmond Jabès and the Question of the Book” convoke with […]
Gobbledygoo
“…Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.” – S. Plath Last night he found himself in an impromptu Plath-a-thon, reciting “Daddy” […]
Zounds: Calling to the Hounds
In her recent introduction to the poetry of Dr. Kristina Zolatova, Per Caritatem blogger Cynthia R. Nielsen writes, Zolatova describes […]
Four in the Morning
Wisława Szymborska (July 2, 1923 – February 1, 2012). Rest in peace.
Mindful of the Date
Seventy years ago today a small group of people meet for ninety minutes at a lovely villa in a Berlin […]
A Memory (Once More)
Erinnerung Und du wartest, erwartest das Eine, das dein Leben unendlich vermehrt; das Mächtige, Ungemeine, das Erwachen der Steine, Tiefen, […]
At Once: A Second Word in Passing
In eins Dreizehnter Feber. Im Herzmund erwachtes Schibboleth. Mit dir, Peuple de Paris. No pasarán. 5 Schäfchen zur Linken: er, […]
Password … Said in Passing
Schibboleth Mitsamt meinen Steinen, den großgeweinten hinter den Gittern, schleiften sie mich 5 in die Mitte des Marktes, dorthin, wo […]
Bullet-Point Friday: Spring Writing Projects
The online academic journal borderlands out of Australia will publish my review essay of Lisa Guenther’s The Gift of the […]
