“Thou Art That” – Part IV, “Some Tragic Falling Off”
Milton’s great theme in Paradise Lost is the fall and redemption of humanity. This too can be seen as “some …
Category Archives: Poetry
A Poet’s “Sense Sublime” – Part III, “Some Tragic Falling Off”
Language is that which gives rise to difference, to the desire for difference, and, at the same time, the desire …
“Some Tragic Falling Off” into Difference and Desire
I’ve been thinking a lot about desire and loss lately and remembering a paper I wrote exploring this topic. It …
Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass
Meditation at Lagunitas By Robert Hass All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old …
“Taste and see – I am spare”
That age-old question “who am I?” haunts us from birth. We sense we are more than what we seem to …
Cultivating “a mind of winter”
I fell in love with Wallace Stevens’ poetry when I first read “The Idea of Order at Key West” in …
Music for Sailing Among the Stars
One of my poems has been set to music. An amazing composer, Troy Armstrong, emailed me earlier this year and …
Blogging and “The Accident of Touching”
These are the last lines of a poem I wrote long ago. The accident of touching is so rare! Sometimes …
Emily Dickinson, Blogger Extraordinaire
I cannot help wondering whether Emily Dickinson, that famous recluse, would not have been an avid blogger if she had …
Unwanted Solicitor, or Failing to See Humanity Behind the Hand
Unwanted Solicitor, or Failing to see Humanity Behind the Hand by Deborah J. Brasket He stood there, a youth from …
