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“Cape Fear” (1962) [by David Lehman]
Here is the first of my monthly movie columns for The American Scholar. For my opening salvo I chose Cape Fear (1962), in which Robert Mitchum captures the very essence of threat, lust, rage, and menace.…
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Seven Haiku for a Mongolian Master [by David Lehman]
Seven Haiku for Mend-Ooyo Lunch on the silveredge of the wide bridal skyin Mongolia. Wife starlight blossom:honeydew of honeymoon:two melons ripe, sweet. Man of the secretcode of the poet: ciphersof Mongolia. Paired pillows, the…
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Catullus #154 [trans Molly Arden]
Ode to His Love Where are you my Lady I am waiting for youI used to think that you would come but youProved to me that male and female are trueDistinctions "different but equal"…
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Epigraph of the Month: Scott Fitzgerald’s for “The Great Gatsby”
“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry ‘Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!’” -Thomas Parke D’Invilliers (a…
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The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered [by Clive James, 1939-2019]
The book of my enemy has been remainderedAnd I am pleased.In vast quantities it has been remainderedLike a van-load of counterfeit that has been seizedAnd sits in piles in a police warehouse,My enemy's much-prized…
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Who is Emily Post-Avant, and What Tickles Her Catastrophe About “Borges, Scary Coins, Spanish Grammar, Homophones”? [By Molly Arden]
"Etiquette and poetry go together like salami and eggs used to before the cholesterol craze. What we need is an authority to adjudicate — an Emily Post, if you will." — Noah Herzog Lo…
