The Compass Rose

    Davis Grubb [1923-1980] is remembered now as a second-tier novelist, two of whose novels-- The Night of the Hunter [1952], and Fools...

Midseason--at the All Star Break--is a traditional time to take stock of the progress of the home team, to estimate possible outcomes, and r...

There are various ways of talking about abstraction. Abstraction is an interesting word. Applied to the plastic arts, it usually means any...

Yacht racing is about the top of the line for expensive sport. Equestrian Polo is up there, but I think yachting is a very rich man's ga...

When we speak of a writer's immortality , what we usually mean is his/her longevity, extending beyond the boundaries of mortality. If yo...

  Louis Zukofsky's early published work remains, for me, a guidepost to what Modernism means. The usual models held up as examples--...

I'm continually amused at the way people think conceptually about poetry in general. It's almost a catalogue of misconceptions.  Ame...