We hiked up a canyon in the cold summer rain. It was late in the day and on the mountain across the canyon there was a section of ...
Of time so long and I’d assumed, wrongly, ...
Remember where I came from. Think of a continent of sabled czars. Leave your home. Let exile fill your mouth like the lost language of the child. Understand the reason. A man who would not wear the ...
of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...
In his photographic sequences, Duane Michals has expanded the possibilities of his medium. While most photo- graphs deal with static appearances, Michals' depend on trans- formations and ...
mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.
Now she is gone. Now I encounter her body.
useless, untender absences with bronze torsos.
Varlam Shalamov claimed not to have learned anything from the Gulag except how to wheel a loaded barrow. But one of his fragmentary writings, dated 1961, tells us more.
gave me. I cared for it faithfully, ...
turned impotent, and had to be divorced. The nineteenth century, for all its love ...
The character of Stefan Mihal has functioned partly as a red herring and partly as a doppelganger for photographer Michals. His name derives from Michals’ middle and last names in their original Czech ...