Sublime

Rule No. 8: Is secret.

acerbic

Remember: if it’s in your shopping cart, it’s as good as in your body.

I loved the idea that a poem written by a young man weeks before his fiery death would be quoted by a speechwriter and read by a president and felt in the chests of a million American children in the wake of another aerial disaster. It showed poetry’s power to circulate among bodies and temporalities, to transcend the contingencies of its authorshi

“…the stammerings of an old man who does not seem to have achieved a full psychic victory over an awkward adolescence…”

incandescent.