Tag Archives: Melville

The Hudson As You Haven’t Seen It Before

Posted on May 7, 2012 by admin

Thomas Wolfe wrote big rhapsodic novels such as Look Homeward, Angel that I read as a teen. After his early death in 1938, an enthusiast named John S. Barnes went through Wolfe’s prose to convert passages into poems with line … Continue reading →

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The Equilibrium of Doubt, by Michael Perkins

Posted on April 5, 2012 by admin

(This review ran in the Oct/Nov 1983 issue of Exquisite Corpse.) In this century “society” has come to mean an institutionalized entity beyond our control, if not our complicity. By regarding society as an impersonal force we are able to … Continue reading →

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In Praise of “The Effort to Hold Light” by Guy Reed

Posted on December 22, 2011 by admin

Every day before lunchtime, the boxy white mail van pulls up for a moment to the mail box across the road. Upstairs in my bathrobe at my computer with a window view of the road I’m tempted to interrupt whatever … Continue reading →

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