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“White Noise” [by Ernest Hilbert]
White Noise The past does not fade, nor does it decline;It merely grows louder, slightly, tone by tone,Until its vast din is blank as silence.The grand chords boom on for some time:Caesar and Charlemagne,…
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“Thinking about George” [for George Schneeman, 1934-2009: by Tom Clark]
Thinking About Georgefor George Schneeman 1934-2009 Thinking about George inJanuary in CaliforniaThe sinking sun lights a few lateStreamers of cloud with faint bloomsLike the distant inklings ofAll one remembers Under the bare plum treeA…
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Perfection Wasted by John Updike
And another regrettable thing about death is the ceasing of your own brand of magic, which took a whole life to develop and market — the quips, the witticisms, the slant adjusted to a…
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Love Sonnet by John Updike [by Moira Egan]
Love Sonnet In Love's rubber armor I come to you; …
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An Updike Poem (by Laura Orem)
Like many of you, I've taught John Updike's "A & P," that little fiction masterpiece of Americana, in Introduction to Literature courses. Students seem to like it — Sammy, the protagonist, is about their…
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John Updike 1932-2009
We have just learned that John Updike has died at the age of 76. Of John Updike, David Lehman has this to say: "He excelled at every genre. He exemplified a true man of…
