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A Resistance to Emerson [by Michael Schiavo]
In the January 2011 issue of Harper’s, Philip Lopate writes eloquently, as ever, about Ralph Waldo Emerson’s journals, recently published in two volumes by the Library of America. I’m always happy when anyone mentions…
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Exile On Main Street [by Michael Schiavo]
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born: that they are not superior to the citizen: that every one…
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Michael Schiavo, Guest Blogger October 9-15
This week we welcome back Michael Schiavo as our guest blogger. Michael is the author of The Mad Song (Shires Press) and the chapbooks 275 Ocean Avenue, Beautiful School (both from his imprint Gondola), Ranges I (H_NGM_N) and Ranges II (Forklift). As an undergraduate at…
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Poet in the Mountains, 1994 by John Lane
I want to buy a mountain place. I’m looking for the purest form of retreat. I want to put as many one lane bridges between me and the nearest Wal-Mart as possible. But I…
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This Just In from Nin Andrews: RESPONSE TO DAVID: Trilling, Snobs, and a Poet in Poland, Ohio
Dear David, I got a little carried away with my response to your recent posts on BAP. I even added a little comic . . . . I fear I might be misreading Trilling.…
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Poet in Northern Michigan, 1987 by John Lane
Mike comes into my tiny office and holds up a new anthology of contemporary poetry. "We'll never be in a book like this," he says with a resolved sadness. We are both in our…
