Translated from the German by Katharina Rout (Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2010) Born in Mongolia in the forties, Galsan Tschinag has lived a range of human experience I can only imagine: he has been, by his own description, a gatherer, … Continued
(Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2010) You could make a convincing argument that I’m less than qualified to offer my opinions on a book consumed with marriage. I’ve lived alone for nearly thirteen years, never had a husband, a fiancé, a proposal. I set … Continued
One road leads to another. (A few, it is true, lead only to the sea, but mostly one road leads to another.) I met the poet H.L. Hix through the poet David Mason. Or, rather, I have never actually met … Continued
Excerpt: Judy Meyerson, a family counselor, had run her practice for over twenty-five years out of a converted townhouse on West Seventy-third Street. The place attracted her from the first, perhaps oddly because of the elevator cage that obviously had … Continued
WORKS DISCUSSED: The Art of the Poetic Line by James Longenbach, St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2008 and The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice, edited by Gary L. McDowell and F. Daniel … Continued
I heard once that after doing the math on Bruges Hitler determined that it was too far off for him to bomb, and so instead, he sent them a flock of swans— a flock of swans as a scourge, … Continued