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Poetry and the Information Age
Visual Cortex diagram courtesy Wikipedia I have been questioning my preference for reading poetry on paper versus digital text for some time now, wondering what might underpin these instincts. It recently occurred to me that the difference in mental ...
Enlightened America
“…how amiable the gorgeous advantage of the newly born.” -Marvin Bell, “The Book of the Dead Man (#42)” I am somewhere over the Midwest as I type this, returning to the West Coast from a weekend in Boston. Val and I made...
In the Family
My father is a storyteller. On summer vacations as a kid, we would trek from California to New Mexico in our brown Ford Aerostar mini-van. This was long before in-built car TVs and fancy portable video games. As we made our way across the endlessly h...
The Death of Loftiness in Poetry
What follows is my subjective analysis of a statistically insignificant data set. That said, I did not conduct my experiment in search of hard-and-fast conclusions. Instead, I created a simple poll about poetry and prose titles, and asked participant...
Poetry Book Titles: a Quick, Fun Poll for Everyone
I have been reflecting on postmodernism and poetry, and came up with the idea of a quick, easy poll to help develop some of these thoughts. Care to help me out? You don’t have to know a thing about poetry to participate. For each title in bold,...
Cloudbank Precipitates Great Poetry
“How open to suggestion / they have always been, carrying nothing // with them of the past, content to leave almost / everything behind…” -Christopher Buckley, “New Clouds” I received a complimentary copy of the premier...
