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Auden in New York (October 23, 2008)
"Auden in New York" On Thursday evening, October 23, 2008., at 7 PM at THE PHILOCTETES CENTER FOR THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF IMAGINATION at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute (EDWARD NERSESSIAN AND FRANCIS LEVY, DIRECTORS)…
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Ayurzana: Three Poems translated by Simon Wickham-Smith
I dream my favorite green tieIs a hangman’s noose, andI wake up. It’s terribly sweet, this taste before death. . . And it’s morning.I don’t have a tiepin to hand…I live, disjointed from the…
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Donne’s “Hymn to God the Father”
John Donne couldn’t resist punning on his name, and that of his wife (Anne More), even in a deathbed meet-your-maker hymn. A Hymn to God the Father Wilt Thou forgive that sin where I…
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Freud’s Story on Yom Kippur
Two enemies were reconciled before Yom Kippur. After Yom Kippur was over one said to the other, "Well, I wish you everything that you wish me." "Starting again already?" the other replied. — sdh
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“On the Cards and Dice” [by Sir Walter Raleigh]
"On the Cards and Dice" is my favorite poem by the redoubtable Sir Walter Raleigh. What I admire most is the sustained metaphorical ingenuity and the slippage in the analogy between games of chance…
