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On Ellington, Mercer, Dylan [by Mark Steyn]
This is from Mark Steyn in The New Criterion in 1994: <<< Martha Bayles holds out till page 20 [of her book Hole in Our Soul ] of her book before slyly sidling into pop culture’s…
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“Romulus and Remus”: in honor of Paul Violi [by David Lehman]
Romulus and Remus Look for Remus in the index of a bookAnd you are bound to get “See Romulus“Which is perfectly logical but makes me wonderAbout indexes, or indices, and why I prefer the…
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If you love parodies. . .
The lover of parodies, convinced that an expert aping of someone else's distinctive style conveys not only a chortle or belly laugh at that poet's expense but a deep respect for that writer as…
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“Last Laughs” [Tanya Larkin on Kenneth Koch’s “Collected Poems” & “Collected Fiction”]
from The Boston Review, January 01, 2007, The Collected Poems of Kenneth KochKenneth KochKnopf, $40 The Collected Fiction of Kenneth KochKenneth KochCoffee House Press, $18 Kenneth Koch once said of his early poems that…
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Kierkegaard: Master of Masks [an astrological profile by David Lehman]
Kierkegaard: Master of Masks [Soren Kierkegaard] Part OneLife as a Pseudonym Let’s say your name is Worry Churchyard [a literal translation of Soren Kierkegaard] . If there’s anything you need, it’s a pseudonym, and…
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The First-Line Contest [by David Lehman]
Everyone on the sonnet squad had to take the first line of a Shakespeare sonnet, change one word, and take it from there. For example, “The expense of spirits in a waste of…
