Month: September 2016
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i take my soul with me everywhere i go

On 16 June 2016, four days after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, artist Vanessa German hosted a “Night of Illumination for Orlando” in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood, a community marked by a Rachel Maddow report in 2011 as America’s …
on Foreigners: The Making of American Literature, 1900-1940 by Marcus Klein
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on The Greeks by Kenneth Dover
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The Con Man as Covert Cultural Hero (on The Confidence Man in American Literature by Gary Lindberg)
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Fashion and Scholarship in Music and Literature (on The Sign in Music and Literature by Wendy Steiner; Unsuspected Eloquence: A History of the Relations between Poetry and Music by James Anderson Winn; The Well-Tun’d Word: Musical Interpretations of English Poetry, 1597-1651 by Elise Bickford Jorgens)
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The Objective Mode in Contemporary Lyric Poetry (on Antarctic Taveller by Katha Pollitt; Northern Lights by Susan Ludvigson; The Expectations of Light by Pattiann Rogers; For the Sleepwalkers by Edward Hirsch; & Brotherly Love by Daniel Hoffman)
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Hawks at Length (on Hawks on Hawks by Joseph McBride)
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Got It At Last, My Legend: Homage to Samuel Beckett (on Company by Samuel Beckett)
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