Tag Archives: Moby Dick

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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Abraham Lincoln as the Catskill Eagle

Posted on February 23, 2012 by admin

“Embedded in the narrative of Moby-Dick is a metaphysical blueprint of the United States. Melville fills the book with telling similes and metaphors that allow a story set almost entirely at sea to evoke the look and feel of America … 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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