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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Daniel Wolff

The Drift of the World

March 9, 2014

Daniel Wolff

I thought you were an anchor in the drift of the world; but no: there isn’t an anchor anywhere. —William Bronk   You aren’t forgotten. How could so much of us ever be? When you left this life, an anchor … Continued

Why Nobody Reads William Bronk

March 8, 2014

Daniel Wolff

First, it’s hard. Take the opening line from the opening poem of Bronk’s 1993 collection, The Mild Day. “It’s like going to Africa to live.” What? What’s like that? You can scan the rest of the short poem and never … Continued

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