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December 12, 2018
City Hermit: The Style Of Allen Ginsberg
Beat: a word used to describe a group of people, mostly poets, who had in common a general rebellion against…
October 19, 2015
Delight In Disorder
by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness. A lawn about the shoulders thrown…
March 25, 2015
I Like Americans
I like Americans… They are the only men in the world, the sight of whom in their shirt-sleeves is not…
September 7, 2014
Frank O’Hara: Poet, Critic, New Yorker, OCBD Wearer.
Frank O’Hara: poet, critic, New Yorker, OCBD wearer. His poem [THE CLOUDS GO SOFT] also appears in a Jasper Johns…
April 10, 2014
“Morning Song Of Senlin” By Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)
It is morning, Senlin says, and in the morning When the light drips through the shutters like the dew, I arise, I…
January 16, 2014
Happiness
John hadGreat BigWaterproof Boots on;John had aGreat BigWaterproofHat;John had aGreat Big WaterproofMackintosh–And that(Said John)IsThat. -A.A. Milne
July 17, 2013
Ode To A Man In Dress Clothes
“Ode to a Man in Dress Clothes” by Gretchen Marquette, via this month’s Harper’s. (Thank you, Stefan)
February 15, 2013
Danse Russe
On my public radio show Bullseye, we close every episode with an essay by me that recommends some piece of…
August 18, 2011
William Carlos Williams, “Danse Russe”
If when my wife is sleepingand the baby and Kathleenare sleepingand the sun is a flame-white discin silken mistsabove shining…
June 6, 2010
Maru Mori Brought Me
Maru Mori brought me a pair of socks which she knitted herself with her sheep-herder’s hands, two socks as soft…
March 18, 2010
Shirt By Robert Pinsky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A Shirt by Robert Pinsky (via The Sunday Best) The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams,The nearly invisible stitches…