On writing
—Sylvia Plath
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Follow the link in our bio to read our Art of Poetry interview with Louise Glück in issue no. 246 (Winter 2023).
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There is a moment in Philip Glass’s memoir, Words without music, when he works as assistant to the sculptor Richard Serra.
“You know, Richard, I wish I could draw,” says Glass. “I can’t even draw a tree.”
“I can help you with that,” says Serra.
“Really? How?”
“I’ll teach you to ‘see’ and then you will be ... See more
There is a moment in Philip Glass’s memoir, Words without music, when he works as assistant to the sculptor Richard Serra.
“You know, Richard, I wish I could draw,” says Glass. “I can’t even draw a tree.”
“I can help you with that,” says Serra.
“Really? How?”
“I’ll teach you to ‘see’ and then you will be ... See more
The Best Essay
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Follow the link in our bio to read our Art of Fiction interview with Shirley Hazzard in issue no. 173 (Spring 2005).
instagram.comThere’s a wonderful letter Chekhov wrote to his brother Alexander about the meaning of grace, how grace is when you make the least number of movements between two points – and that type of athletic prose has always appealed to me, coupled with light-handedness and restraint. Elegance, to me, is writing just enough. And, as James Baldwin said, in hi
... See moreBooks are disruptors. Books are questions. I’m not talking about How To Manuals that pretend to give us answers. I’m talking about the noisy row that breaks out in our heads when we have to think past ourselves
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Poetry likes that kind of intelligence. Poetry likes the rhythms of your body and the movements of your body. I realized that, for me as a poet, the more physical intelligence I could put in my poems, the better they were.
That’s because the one thing we have in common is the same body. We have hearts and lungs, and the kind of rhythms of living are... See more
That’s because the one thing we have in common is the same body. We have hearts and lungs, and the kind of rhythms of living are... See more
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