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Freud Quiz # 14
Freud Quiz # 14 Freud’s discovery of "drives" came about because (a) some dreams cannot be ascribed to wish-fulfillment (b) when Freud played golf in Scotland, he favored drivers over putters (c) he was…
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Happy Birthday, Harold Hart Crane
Hart Crane (1899-1932) is the greatest might have been in our literature, the closest thing to an American Keats, a sublime visionary and transcendent phrasemaker. Though sober-minded critics have long warned against the excesses…
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This Just In
Moira Egan writes to us from Rome, where she lives with her husband Damiano Abeni. Together they’ve translated a new edition of poems by John Ashbery: Damiano and I are going to be on…
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Interview with Hugh Behm-Steinberg [by Reb Livingston]
Back in April I dreamed that I was in my high school cafeteria and my friends were all gushing over Hugh Behm-Steinberg’s Shy Green Fields. They were asking how did I do it. I…
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Music and Poems [by Lloyd Schwartz]
July 15, 2008: First Meetings (The third installment of the story about my poems being set to music by the composition fellows at Tanglewood) I just got back from Tanglewood where I had…
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Writing Blurbs [by Nin Andrews]: Part Three
Another Ode to Denise Duhamel Reading Denise I always have this urge to call her up and say yeah, and wow, and me, too, and oh gross, and yes, yes, really I want to…