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Alan Bernheimer’s “Retroscope”: Focus on Robert Louis Stevenson
Turning his back on lawyering and the family business of lighthouse design, the young Robert Louis Stevenson embarked on his literary career as travel writer with An Inland Voyage, his day-dreamy canoe trip through…
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Titian, a Limerick from London
When Titian was grinding rose madder,his model was posed on a ladder.Her position to Titiansuggested coitionso he climbed up the ladder and had her. Very English — instructive on pronunciation of challenging words (Titian,…
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“‘P’ Club” [by Jory Post]
Our CPA has prostate cancer and Parkinson’s disease. I have pancreatic cancer. Michelle’s husband has polio. We’re looking for others who might round out our “P” club: someone with psoriasis, pelvic inflammatory disease, pinkeye,…
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James Merrill’s “Log” [on JM’s Birthday]
James Merrill in Athens, 1971. Photo by Tom Victor. Log Then when the flame forked like a sudden pathI gasped and stumbled, and was less.Density pulsing upward, gauze of ash,Dear light along the way…
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Mark Scroggins on Poetic Fashion
New from "Dispatches from the Poetry Wars," this sartorially slanted column by Mark Scroggins, under the heading "La Derniere mode poetique." Scroggins reports on the annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, which he…
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Song of Gratitude [by Lera Auerbach]
Final notes of Beethoven's Heiliger Dankgesang On Beethoven, my new string quartet, and the eternal Song of Thanks Beethoven wrote his Heiliger Dankgesang as an expression of gratitude for surviving a near-fatal illness. The tradition…
